All contemporary religions and churches, all and every kind of religious organization, Marxism has always viewed as organs of bourgeois reaction, serving as a defense of exploitation and the doping of the working-classes.

Trust is good, but control is better.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

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

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