Joseph Stalin

The history of Bolshevism is the history of a great struggle for the purity of Marxism.

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 magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

The working class is the only class that can lead the revolution.

The complete victory of socialism means the complete elimination of capitalism.

The Party is the leading and guiding force of Soviet society.

The more rapid the development of the Soviet Union, the more furiously will the remnants of the exploiting classes rage, the more acutely will they employ their last means of struggle.