"There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm."

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?"

"When we hang the capitalists, they will sell us the rope we use."

"We are building a society where there will be no room for parasites."

"The revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimo…"