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

Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.

How can you make a revolution without executions?

A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.

Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.

We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.

We do not have time to play at “oppositions” at “conferences.” We will keep our political opponents,whether open or disguised as “nonparty,” in prison.

Trust is good, but control is better.

We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.

You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

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

Don’t be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.

Those who are opposed to armed uprising. Must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.

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

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

We can look for beauty in the mirror, but the mirror only reflects one aspect of who we are.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

We’re all looking for something, but all it really is, is love in some way or another.

Behind every face there is so much more.

It’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

Everyone wants to be good but good is only what we’re taught to perceive.