Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

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

We are not shooting enough professors.

As an ultimate objective, "peace" simply means communist world control.