Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Trust is good, but control is better.
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Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when the working people themselves take power in their hands the ruling classes resort to unheard-of crimes and shootings if it is a matter of protecting their money-bags.
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Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.
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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.
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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?
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It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives. It is far more difficult--and far more precious--to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist.
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One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
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War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished.
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For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.
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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.
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The only one who doesn't make mistakes is the one who doesn't do anything.
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It is stupid to tolerate Nikola; all Chekists have to be on alert to shoot anyone who doesn't turn up to work because of Nikola.
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Our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man by man and nation by nation, will inevitably eliminate the very possibility of war.
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This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of the Economists look with sincere resentment upon all theoretical controversies, factional disagreements, broad political questions, plans for organising revolutionaries, etc.
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The majority of the so-called great powers have long been exploiting and enslaving a whole series of small and weak peoples. And the imperialist war is nothing other than a war for the division and redivision of this kind of booty.
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No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.
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Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.
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No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals; war on the rogues, the idlers and the rowdies!
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.