False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.

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

All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all.

There can be nothing more abominable than religion.

Our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man by man and nation by nation, will inevitably eliminate the very possibility of war.

Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.