In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.

Trust is good, but control is better.

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.

The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.