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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.

We must hate - hatred is the basis of communism. Children must be taught to hate their parents if they are not communists.

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

He who does not work shall not eat

Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.

Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.

The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.

Our power does not know liberty or justice. It is established on the destruction of the individual will.

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

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

One cannot live in society and be free from society.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

I particularly approve of and welcome the arrest of millionaire saboteurs in the first and second-class railway carriage.

Peace, Land, and Bread! All power to the Soviet!

Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people.

Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.

One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.

The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.

Destroy the family, you destroy the country.

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.

In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.

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

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.

One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.

Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population defenseless.

We are not shooting enough professors

Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.

It is in prison ... that one becomes a real revolutionary.

Every cook must learn to rule the State.

A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines

You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.

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

One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.

No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.

For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.

Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.

Trust is good, but control is better.

The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavor to keep them disunited.

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

For any truth, if overdone ... if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity.

The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

There can be nothing more abominable than religion.

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

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

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.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.

Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.

Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.

I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.

You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.

Federal Switzerlandization would be a huge step backwards for Germany. Two

Any cook should be able to run the country.

War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished.

Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.

No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.

The only one who doesn't make mistakes is the one who doesn't do anything.

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.

The goal of Socialism is Communism.

Act with the greatest determination and on the offensive. The defensive is the death of every armed rising.

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.

You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

Be as radical as Reality.

It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.

We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle.

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.

Crime is a product of social excess.

In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.

One quick way to destroy a society is through its music.

All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

International unity of the workers is more important than the national.

History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.

The departments are shit; decrees are shit.

It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.

Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.

Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror.

The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.