"A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution."

"We must be able to combine the strictest loyalty to the ideas of communism with the ability to make all the necessary practical compromises."

"The sound of the machine-gun is the finest music in the world."

"Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by the use of violence by the proletariat agai…"

"The more powerful the resistance of the exploiting classes, the more ruthless, the more merciless, the more uncompromising must be the struggle."