The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Sometimes quantity has a quality all its own.

Peace, Land, and Bread! All power to the Soviet!

All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased to be the work of a single socialist of the nineteenth century, even though he was a genius, and that it has become the doctrine of millions and tens of millions of proletarians all over the world, who are applying it in their struggle against capitalism.

The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust the bourgeoisie.