The future cannot be legislated. All that can be done is to anticipate its most important movements and to clear the path for them.

When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society composed of men better than they are in reality. But no; a thousand times, no. All we ask is that men should not be made worse than they are, by such institutions!

You know how I always believe in the future. Without disorder, the revolution is impossible; knowing that, I did not lose hope, and I do not lose it now.

Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand that your teachers teach you that.

Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!

Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.