It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.

To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.

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

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.