A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
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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. I am just like everybody else.
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Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
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Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.
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Fascism is capitalism in decay.
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
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It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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The goal of socialism is communism.
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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
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The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.
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The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
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There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
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Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
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When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
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While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
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