For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.

Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.

The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.

Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.

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