Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.

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

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.

When we are victorious on a world scale I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in the streets of some of the largest cities of the world.

The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.