False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.

All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all.

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'.

It is stupid to tolerate Nikola; all Chekists have to be on alert to shoot anyone who doesn't turn up to work because of Nikola.

Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.