Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Recovery proceeding excellently. Am sure that the crushing of the Kazan Czechs and whiteguards, as well as of the kulak extortioners supporting them, will be exemplarily ruthless.

Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.

As an ultimate objective, "peace" simply means communist world control.

You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.

Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.