The constitution of Soviet Russia must insure equal rights for all citizens regardless of sex, creed, race, or nationality.

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.

Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.

Germany will militarize herself out of existence, England will expand herself out of existence, and America will spend herself out of existence.

We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society.

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

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.