Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.

Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.

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

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

A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.