Trust is good, but control is better.

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

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced countries and outdistance them, too, in economic matters.

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

Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.