Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.

Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything, can form an opinion of everything, and do everything consciously.

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

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

Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.