“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”

“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.”

“I believe in only one thing, the power of human will.”

“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

“Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words of Luther, Russia might say: ‘Here I stand on the frontier between the old, capitalist world and the new, socialist world. Here on this frontier I unite the efforts of the proletarians of the West and of the peasantry of the East in order to shatter the old world. May the god of history be my aid!”

“[redacted; quotation spurious].”