Joseph Stalin — "When there is no one left, no problem."

"There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm."

"Print is the sharpest and most powerful weapon of our Party."

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?"

"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 magnanimo…"

"We are 50 or 100 years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in 10 years. Either we do it, or they will crush us."