“Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.”

When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.

Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.

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

As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.

Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

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

You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.

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

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

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

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.

The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.

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

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

Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.

It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy.

Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.

I want people to learn what democracy means.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.

If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy.