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The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.
Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines
International unity of the workers is more important than the national.
As an ultimate objective, "peace" simply means communist world control.
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.
The only one who doesn't make mistakes is the one who doesn't do anything.
Man’s consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.
For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.
You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.
Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back
Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.
Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.
Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.
It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin.
Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror.
Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.
I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.
Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.
People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.