Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.

As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life.

One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old

Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.

In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.