Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky

“The whole history of mankind proves that the state had its origin in class contradictions and conflicts created by the development of tribal society, in the need to 'curb class opposition.' It was precisely this fact that made the state the organ of the authority of the strongest - economically dominant - class which, with the support of the state, thus becomes the most powerful class politically as well.”
― Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky, The Law of the Soviet State

“Marxism-Leninism thus draws a sharp line between the bourgeois and the proletarian viewpoint of the state - between bourgeois and proletarian theories concerning the state - and finally discloses as myth the proposition that the state is neutral and is above all classes.”
― Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky, The Law of the Soviet State