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

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

Trust is good, but control is better.

How can you make a revolution without executions?

Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.

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

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

You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.

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

It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

There can be nothing more abominable than religion.

We are not shooting enough professors.

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

The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.

The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.

It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.

Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.