The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.

I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.

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

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

A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines

The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.

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