Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.

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

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

Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.