I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.

Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands.

The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.

The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.

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

Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.