But I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.

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

Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.

Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.

The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.