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

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

Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.

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.

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.

When the devil is called god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldiness.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

He who knows how to speak, knows also when.

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.

You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.

God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show gratitude for what we have received.

Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confused as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.

It is only god who creates. Man merely arranges.