Quotes About Power

The exploiting classes need political rule to maintain exploitation, i.e., in the selfish interests of an insignificant minority against the vast majority of all people. The exploited classes need political rule in order to completely abolish all exploitation, i.e., in the interests of the vast majority of the people, and against the insignificant minority consisting of the modern slave-owners – the landowners and capitalists.

What a waste that we lost Mussolini. He is a first-rate man who would have led our party to power in Italy. [Addressing to a delegation of Italian socialists in Moscow after Mussolini's March on Rome in 1922]

imperialist (that is, an annexationist, predatory, war of plunder)

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

Communism is Soviet government plus the electrification of the whole country.

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

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

Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.

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

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

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

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.

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

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

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

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

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

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

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

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

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.

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

Trust is good, control is better.

The revolution does not need historians.