Vladimir Lenin — "The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing."

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

"We need to go to the countryside, to the villages, to the peasants. We must explain to them that the Soviet government is the only government that frees them from exploitation."

"The state will wither away only when there are no longer any classes."

"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 best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves."