When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

The roots of modern religion are deeply embedded in the social oppression of the working masses.

We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.

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

Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.

Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.

Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.

The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.

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

When we say the state, the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.

It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.

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

Ideological talk and phrase mongering about political liberties should be disposed with; all that is just mere chatter and phrase mongering. We should get away from those phrases.

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

The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust the bourgeoisie.

Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures had met the needs of the poor peasants, would there have been unrest among the peasant masses?

An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence -- such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.

To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary- constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics.