Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

One cannot live in society and be free from society.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.