People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

Sometimes quantity has a quality all its own.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

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

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society.