If he is not a complete mediocrity, he will and should have ideals.

2. It is better to have a good pear than a basket of rotten pears. Even if there are only two or three active and loyal people, it is better than ten energetic people.

3. Any new social system requires new relationships and new disciplines between people.

4. Diplomacy is a continuation of internal affairs.

5. The functions and powers of political parties and their central and Soviet powers must be clearly divided.

6. Lenin wanted to study people and find capable cadres. Now here's the key: without this, all orders and decisions are nothing but dirty scraps of paper.

7. All wars involve the use of violence against the nation, but this does not prevent socialists from approving of revolutionary wars.

8. Workers’ organization, discipline, perseverance and solidarity with workers all over the world are the guarantee for final victory.

9. Forgetting the past means betrayal!

10. Anyone who is not with us is against us. Neutral people are the most dangerous.

11. Whoever does not know how to rest cannot work.

12. History has long proven that great revolutionary struggles will create great figures and bring out geniuses that were impossible in the past.

13. If you want to manage, you must be an expert, you must be proficient in all the conditions of production, you must understand modern high-level production technology, and you must have certain scientific accomplishments.

14. People need ideals, but they need human ideals that are in line with nature, not supernatural ideals.