Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.

Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by the use of violence by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws.

You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.

For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

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

Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes).