If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.

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

During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.

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

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

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