"Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service."

"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into a little of everything."

"The working class, having seized power, cannot remain within the framework of bourgeois democracy."

"Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full."

"The revolution is the locomotive of history."