Vladimir Lenin Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin Famous Quotes & Sayings
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We must hate - hatred is the basis of communism. Children must be taught to hate their parents if they are not communists.
Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.
The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
Our power does not know liberty or justice. It is established on the destruction of the individual will.
False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.
When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
I particularly approve of and welcome the arrest of millionaire saboteurs in the first and second-class railway carriage.
Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people.
Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.
The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.
We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.
In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.
Germany will militarize herself out of existence, England will expand herself out of existence, and America will spend herself out of existence.
We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population defenseless.
You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.
No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.
For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.
Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavor to keep them disunited.
For any truth, if overdone ... if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity.
The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.
The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.
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.
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.
Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.
I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.
People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
Act with the greatest determination and on the offensive. The defensive is the death of every armed rising.
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.
The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
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.
In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.
All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.
The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.