"There can be nothing more abominable than religion."
"Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism."
"The goal of socialism is communism."
"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."
"Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state."
"We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us."
"Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration(manipulate) it."
"One man with a gun can control 100 without one."
"It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror."
"As an ultimate objective, "peace" simply means communist world control."
"The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses."
"Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? My communist government would not allow opposition by “lethal weapons” like the ideas because Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?"
"Free speech is a bourgeois/capitalist prejudice."
"People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics."
"The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves."
"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."
"The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation."
"We are not shooting enough professors."
"There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel."
"It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain."
"One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class."