Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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He who does not work shall not eat
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To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary- constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics.
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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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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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Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
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Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.
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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.
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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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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations -- all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism.
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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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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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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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Sometimes - history needs a push.
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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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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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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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We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.
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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).
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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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The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced countries and outdistance them, too, in economic matters.