He who does not work shall not eat

The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and their solution.

By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and should be a progressive factor not only economically. It will force the peasant to reflect on the bases of the capitalist system, demolish faith in the tsar and tsarism, and consequently in due course make the victory of the revolution easier... Psychologically all this talk about feeding the starving and so on essentially reflects the usual sugary sentimentality of our intelligentsia.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

The goal of socialism is communism.

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.