Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Sometimes quantity has a quality all its own.

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.

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

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

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

A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.