You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

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.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror.

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

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

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