"We must execute not only the guilty. Execution of the innocent will impress the masses even more."

"A lie told often enough becomes the truth."

"The party is the mind, honor, and conscience of our epoch."

"The advanced detachment of the proletariat is a vanguard that is capable of leading the entire mass of the working people, and not merely of pushing them forward."

"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 …"