Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on
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You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation of that labour. But both these facts manifest themselves in extremely diverse processes in different branches of the national economy.
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Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
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Sometimes quantity has a quality all its own.
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Man’s consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.
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The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavour to keep them disunited.
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It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
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Peace, Land, and Bread! All power to the Soviet!
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For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.
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Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
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When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.
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Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
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We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as "nonparty," in prison.
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Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures had met the needs of the poor peasants, would there have been unrest among the peasant masses?
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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.
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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
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Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.
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Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.
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The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted - or rather tend to be corrupted - by the conditions of capitalism and betray a tendency to become bureaucrats, i.e., privileged persons divorced from the people and standing above the people.
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A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery.