— Today the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is accused of an unclear ideology. Communists lay flowers on Lenin and at the same time honor church holidays.

— I think that our predecessors made one of the worst mistakes: quarreled with believers. By the way, Lenin a year after his victory in October demanded the utmost respect for faith. I insisted that the requirements for atheism be removed from the charter of our party. Faith is everyone's personal business. And I note: as a rule, believers do not run from party to party. I studied the Bible myself. I took the Sermon on the Mount of Christ and the Code of the Builder of Communism and realized that we copied it all from the Sermon on the Mount. In the Gospel, in the epistle of the Apostle Paul, our main slogan is formulated: if any would not work, neither should he eat. My predecessors changed there only one word "does not eat."

… To talk about god-seeking, not in order to declare against all devils and gods, against every ideological necrophily (all worship of a divinity is necrophily — be it the cleanest, most ideal, not sought-out but built-up divinity, it’s all the same), but to prefer a blue devil to a yellow one is a hundred times worse than not saying anything about it at all.

… Just because any religious idea, any idea of any god at all, any flirtation even with a god, is the most inexpressible foulness, particularly tolerantly (and often even favourably) accepted by the democratic bourgeoisie — for that very reason it is the most dangerous foulness, the most shameful «infection».