All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all.

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

An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.

In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.

He who does not work shall not eat

The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.