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

By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and should be a progressive factor not only economically. It will force the peasant to reflect on the bases of the capitalist system, demolish faith in the tsar and tsarism, and consequently in due course make the victory of the revolution easier... Psychologically all this talk about feeding the starving and so on essentially reflects the usual sugary sentimentality of our intelligentsia.

Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.

All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.

Crime is a product of social excess.

Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.