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.

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

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

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

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

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

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

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

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.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

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

Crime is a product of social excess.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

The goal of socialism is communism.

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

Without 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.

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

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

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

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.

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

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

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

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

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

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

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

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.

To rely upon conviction devotion and other excellent spiritual qualities that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil see no way out and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.

We need the real nation wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the great French Revolution achieved glory.

One man with a gun can control a hundred without one.

Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.

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.

No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.