The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.

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

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.

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.

Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.