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

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy's cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.

Peace, Land, and Bread! All power to the Soviet!

The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.

Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.

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