To be a materialist is to acknowledge objective truth, which is revealed to us by our sense organs. - Vladimir Lenin

Complete equality of rights for all nations; the right of nations to self-determination; the unity of the workers of all nations — such is the national programme that Marxism, the experience of the whole world, and the experience of Russia, teach the workers.

I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it ... All this is only the road to a World Revolution.

We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these.