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

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

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.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.