Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.
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It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.
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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
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He who does not work shall not eat
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The whole struggle of our Party (and of the working class movement in Europe generally) must be directed against opportunism. The latter is not a current of opinion, not a tendency; it (opportunism) has now become the organised tool of the bourgeoisie within the working class movement.
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Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.
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To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.
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One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.
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An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.
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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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How can you make a revolution without executions?
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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
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It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.
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You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased to be the work of a single socialist of the nineteenth century, even though he was a genius, and that it has become the doctrine of millions and tens of millions of proletarians all over the world, who are applying it in their struggle against capitalism.
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Let the "socialist" snivellers croak, let the bourgeoisie rage and fume, but only people who shut their eyes so as not to see, and stuff their ears so as not to hear, can fail to notice that all over the world the birth pangs of the old, capitalist society, which is pregnant with socialism, have begun.
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It is not for nothing that Skaldin in one part of his book quotes Adam Smith: we have seen that both his views and the character of his arguments in many respects repeat the theses of that great ideologist of the progressive bourgeoisie.
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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
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The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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International unity of the workers is more important than the national.
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Germany will militarize herself out of existence, England will expand herself out of existence, and America will spend herself out of existence.
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The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.
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Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.