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.

We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.

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

Sometimes quantity has a quality all its own.

Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.

One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.

For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.