Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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I come to the categorical conclusion that precisely at this moment we must give battle to the Black Hundred clergy in the most decisive and merciless manner and crush its resistance with such brutality that it will not forget it for decades to come. The greater the number of representatives of the reactionary clergy and reactionary bourgeoisie we succeed in executing for this reason, the better.
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Sometimes - history needs a push.
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.
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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
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The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.
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It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.
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A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.
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But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.
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Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
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But 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.
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People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
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In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority.
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Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.
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Crime is a product of social excess.
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When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.
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Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people.
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The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of petty-bourgeois Anarchism. And the struggle against these elements cannot be waged with propaganda and agitation alone. ... The struggle must also be waged by applying force and compulsion.
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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these.
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Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.
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Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.
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Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.