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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

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

Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.

The goal of socialism is communism.