Any cook should be able to run the country.

Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.

The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust the bourgeoisie.

As an ultimate objective, "peace" simply means communist world control.

Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything, can form an opinion of everything, and do everything consciously.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.