The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.

The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.

One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.

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

Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines