Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle. But we are ready to fight, we have started it and we shall finish it with the aid of the apparatus called the Soviets.

Čovek nikada ne može biti dovoljno radikalan.Odnosno, čovek mora biti radikalan koliko i sama stvarnost.

Germany will militarize herself out of existence, England will expand herself out of existence, and America will spend herself out of existence.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

We must not talk about power, we must take it.

Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the ‘working masses’.

Every society is three meals away from chaos.

The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

The proletarian state must effect the transition to collective farming with extreme caution and only very gradually, by the force of example, without any coercion of the middle peasant.

Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

All power to the Soviets!

The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i. e., he must be a dialectical materialist.

Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.

When we make revolution, we must not fear to make mistakes.

About three million must be regarded as middle peasants, while barely two million consist of kulaks, rich peasants, grain profiteers… Ruthless war on the kulaks! Death to them! … [Class struggle entails] ruthless suppression of the kulaks, those bloodsuckers, vampires, plunderers of the people and profiteers, who batten on famine.

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

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

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

Sometimes – history needs a push.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greece: freedom for the slave-owners.

The Congress decisively rejects terrorism, i. e., the system of individual political assassinations, as being a method of political struggle which is most inexpedient at the present time, diverting the best forces from the urgent and imperatively necessary work of organisation and agitation, destroying contact between the revolutionaries and the masses of the revolutionary classes of the population, and spreading both among the revolutionaries themselves and the population in general utterly distorted ideas of the aims and methods of struggle against the autocracy.

Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.

Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Without a revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

The goal of socialism is communism.

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward – or go back. He who now talks about the ‘freedom of the press’ goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.