An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.

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

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.

Crime is a product of social excess.

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.