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

Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.

To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary- constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics.

No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.

By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and should be a progressive factor not only economically. It will force the peasant to reflect on the bases of the capitalist system, demolish faith in the tsar and tsarism, and consequently in due course make the victory of the revolution easier... Psychologically all this talk about feeding the starving and so on essentially reflects the usual sugary sentimentality of our intelligentsia.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.