Vladimir Lenin Quotes

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

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• We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Revolution
  • Theory
  • Blind

• Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Long
  • Thoughts
  • Impossible

• Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Good
  • Person
  • Impossible

• I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Nothing
  • Revolutionary
  • Even

• Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Day
  • Impossible

• I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Band

• I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and the people of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, the promoter of the Bolivarian Revolution and the United Socialist Party he founded.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Party
  • Revolution

• We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Impossible
  • Environmental

• People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Time
  • Done
  • Easy

• We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Eyes
  • Smile
  • Distance

• So much of Islam is Judeo-Christianity. It's impossible to divorce them. Islam is 600 years after Christ. Thousands of years after Judaism. Christ, Moses, Abraham - they are all in the Koran.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Impossible
  • Divorce
  • Islam

• I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.

  

  Han Fei
  • Believe
  • Impossible
  • Sure

• Mubarak's regime is dead and finished. People will not go back to this. This is a farce being propagated by the Muslim Brotherhood to say that this revolution was supported by the remnants of the Mubarak regime. They have gone against the whole Egyptian society, and this is why they were removed.

  

  Naguib Sawiris
  • People
  • Why
  • Society

• Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Time
  • Change
  • Revolution

• There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Death
  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Star
  • Sometimes
  • Impossible

• To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Popular
  • Impossible
  • Ignore

• And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

  

  Hu Shih
  • Mean
  • Revolution
  • Authority

• I absolutely loved it, and I loved the way the character of D'Artagnan had been portrayed. I was just well up for it. So, I went in and met (director) Toby [Haynes], and as soon as I got into that room, to see how excited everybody was to get this underway and onto the set, it just drew me to it, even more. It was an instant attraction, so I was delighted when I got the offer.

  

  Luke Pasqualino
  • Up
  • Character
  • Excited

• Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our bodies, govern our gestures, dictate our behaviors, etc... we should try to discover how it is that subjects are gradually, progressively, really and materially constituted through a multiplicity of organisms, forces, energies, materials, desires, thoughts, etc. We should try to grasp subjection in its material instance as a constitution of subjects.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Discover

• A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Revolution
  • Impossible
  • Revolutionary