Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin.
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Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.
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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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The most important thing is to know how to awaken in the still undeveloped masses an intelligent attitude towards religious questions and an intelligent criticism of religions.
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Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
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As an ultimate objective, "peace" simply means communist world control.
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I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.
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Fascism is capitalism in decay.
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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 Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any form of superstition, reaction, or defence of bourgeois oppression. It is the legitimate successor to the best that man produced in the nineteenth century, as represented by German philosophy, English political economy and French socialism.
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Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.
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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and should be a progressive factor not only economically. It will force the peasant to reflect on the bases of the capitalist system, demolish faith in the tsar and tsarism, and consequently in due course make the victory of the revolution easier... Psychologically all this talk about feeding the starving and so on essentially reflects the usual sugary sentimentality of our intelligentsia.
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No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always spoken of agreement with them and of their gradual and voluntary transition to socialism.
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Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.
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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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The only one who doesn't make mistakes is the one who doesn't do anything.
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War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished.
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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
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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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Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.
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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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In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.