“I had already drawn up the plan for the next, the seventh chapter, on the 'Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917.' But... It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.” 

“The departments are shit; decrees are shit.” 

“It is necessary sometimes to take one step backward to take two steps forward.” 

“Logic is the science not of external forms of thought, but of the laws of development "of all material, natural and spiritual things", i.e., of the development of the entire concrete content of the world and of its cognition, i.e., the sum-total, the conclusion of the History of knowledge of the world.” 

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

“Revolution consists not in the new class commanding, governing with the aid of the old state machine, but in this class smashing this machine and commanding, governing with the aid of a new machine.” 

“I am bound to accord you, in the name of free speech, the full right to shout, lie and write to your heart’s content. But you are bound to grant me, in the name of freedom of association, the right to enter into, or withdraw from, association with people advocating this or that view.” 

“I am bound to accord you, in the name of free speech, the full right to shout, lie and write to your heart’s content. But you are bound to grant me, in the name of freedom of association, the right to enter into, or withdraw from, association with people advocating this or that view.” 

“Translated into ordinary human language this means that the development of capitalism has arrived at a stage when, although commodity production still “reigns” and continues to be regarded as the basis of economic life, it has in reality been undermined and the bulk of the profits go to the “geniuses” of financial manipulation.” 

“The roots of modern religion are deeply embedded in the social oppression of the working masses.” 

“American ethics”, which the European professors and well-meaning bourgeois so hypocritically deplore, have, in the age of finance capital, become the ethics of literally every large city in any country.” 

“But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop, the greater is the concentration of production and capital which gives rise to monopoly?” 

“Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.” 

“Exchange, fair or unfair,always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie.” 

“Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay” 

“The revolution does not need historians.” 

“It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.” 

“America, like a few other nations, has become characteristic for the depth of the abyss that divide a handful of brutal millionaires who are stagnating in a mire of luxury, and millions of laboring starving men and women who are always staring want in the face.” 

“One man with a gun can control a hundred without one.” 

“All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake "public opinion" for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.” 

“And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?” 

“The goal of Socialism is Communism.” 

“It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it. ” 

“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” 

“There are no morals in politics; the is only experience. A scoundrel may be of use because he is a scoundrel” 

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

“Every society is three meals away from chaos” 

“We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon incomprehension of the tasks of the proletarian dictatorship, are totally alien to Marxism, and, as a matter of fact, serve only to postpone the socialist revolution until people are different. No, we want the socialist revolution with people as they are now, with people who cannot dispense with subordination, control, and "foremen and accountants".” 

“The intellectual forces of the workers and peasants are growing and getting stronger in their fight to overthrow the bourgeoisie and their accomplices, the educated classes, the lackeys of capital, who consider themselves the brains of the nation. In fact they are not its brains but its shit.” 

“Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes).” 

“Three keys to success: read, read, read.” 

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” 

“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” 

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

“Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.” 

“Sometimes - history needs a push.” 

“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.” 

“When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.” 

“The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” 

“Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.”