"The working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purposes."

"The working class needs a strong, centralized party to lead it to victory."

"When we are victorious on a world scale I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in the streets of the great cities of the world."

"Our program is the complete destruction of the state, the complete destruction of all class distinctions, the complete liberation of all working people from exploitation."

"It is not enough to be a revolutionary and an adherent of socialism or a Communist in general. You must be able at each particular moment to find the particular link in the chain which you must grasp …"