“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
― Vladimir Lenin
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.”
― Vladimir Lenin
“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
― Vladimir Lenin
“Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.”
― Vladimir Lenin
“Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.”
― Vladimir Lenin
“Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.”
― Vladimir Lenin
“Sometimes – history needs a push.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.”
― Lenin
“During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.”
― Vladimir Lenin
“The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
― Vladimir Ilich Lenin
“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“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.”
― Vladimir Lenin
“Every society is three meals away from chaos”
― Vladimir Lenin
“While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.”
― Vladimir Lenin
“Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“Three keys to success: read, read, read.”
― Vladimir Lenin
“I can’t listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid nice things and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.”
― Vladimir Lenin
“The goal of Socialism is Communism.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“It is more pleasant and useful to go through the ‘experience of the revolution’ than to write about it. ”
― V. I. Lenin
“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”.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“There are no morals in politics; the is only experience. A scoundrel may be of use because he is a scoundrel”
― Vladimir Lenin
“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.”
― Lenin
“All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“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.”
― Vladimir Lenin
“Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the ‘working masses’.”
― Vladimir I lenin
“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?”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“We are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other by the hand. We are surrounded on all sides by enemies, and we have to advance almost constantly under their fire. We have combined, by a freely adopted decision, for the purpose of fighting the enemy, and not of retreating into the neighbouring marsh, the inhabitants of which, from the very outset, have reproached us with having separated ourselves into an exclusive group and with having chosen the path of struggle instead of the path of conciliation. And now some among us begin to cry out: Let us go into the marsh! And when we begin to shame them, they retort: What backward people you are! Are you not ashamed to deny us the liberty to invite you to take a better road! Oh, yes, gentlemen! You are free not only to invite us, but to go yourselves wherever you will, even into the marsh. In fact, we think that the marsh is your proper place, and we are prepared to render you every assistance to get there. Only let go of our hands, don’t clutch at us and don’t besmirch the grand word freedom, for we too are “free” to go where we please, free to fight not only against the marsh, but also against those who are turning towards the marsh!”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“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).”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay”
― Vladimir Ilich Lenin
“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.”
― Vladimir Ilich Lenin
“Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.”
― Vladimir Lenin
“Exchange, fair or unfair,always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie.”
― V.I. Lenin
“One man with a gun can control a hundred without one.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“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.”
― Vladimir Lenin
“The task of a truly revolutionary party is not to declare that it is impossible to renounce all compromises, but to be able, through all compromises, when they are unavoidable, to remain true to its principles, to its class, to its revolutionary purpose, to its task of paving the way for revolution and educating the mass of the people for victory in the revolution.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“When the workers of a single factory or of a single branch of industry engage in struggle against their employer or employers, is this class struggle? No, this is only a weak embryo of it. The struggle of the workers becomes a class struggle only when all the foremost representatives of the entire working class of the whole country are conscious of themselves as a single working class and launch a struggle that is directed, not against individual employers, but against the entire class of capitalists and against the government that supports that class. Only when the individual worker realizes that he is a member of the entire working class, only when he recognises the fact that his petty day-to-day struggle against individual employers and individual government officials is a struggle against the entire bourgeoisie and the entire government, does his struggle become a class struggle.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.”
― Vladimir Lenin
“The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance… the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it.”
― Vladimir Lenin
“He loved her with the fire of a thousand suns, she was his solace in the chaos, his redemption.”
― Lenin
“The revolution does not need historians.”
― Vladimir Lenin
“Capitalism in its imperialist stage leads directly to the most comprehensive socialisation of production; it, so to speak, drags the capitalists, against their will and consciousness, into some sort of a new social order, a transitional one from complete free competition to complete socialisation. Production becomes social, but appropriation remains private. The social means of production remain the private property of a few. The general framework of formally recognised free competition remains, and the yoke of a few monopolists on the rest of the population becomes a hundred times heavier, more burdensome and intolerable.”
― Vladimir Ilich Lenin
“Čovek nikada ne može biti dovoljno radikalan.Odnosno, čovek mora biti radikalan koliko i sama stvarnost.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“We do not at all disagree with the anarchists on the question of the abolition of the state as an aim.”
― Vladimir Lenin
“It is necessary sometimes to take one step backward to take two steps forward.”
― Vladimir Lenin
“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.”
― V. I. Lenin
“Trust is good, control is better.”
― Vladimir Lenin