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Top Vladimir Lenin Quotes

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: freedom for the slave-owners.

The goal of socialism is communism.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no State.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

Top Vladimir Lenin Quotes part 2

Every cook must learn how to govern the state.

Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

Crime is a product of social excess.

Morality is that which serves to destroy the old exploiting society.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward – or go back. He who now talks about the ‘freedom of the press’ goes backward and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Marxism is alive because it is constantly developing, constantly going into new stages, and because it has been proved correct in the crucibles of struggle against imperialism.

The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.

The truth is on the side of the oppressed.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Give me a child for eight years, and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality.

No one can give you power. It is yours. Take it!

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. You don’t need anything else.

We are not utopians, we do not ‘dream’ of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination.

Every little fish in the sea is free to bark at the whale.

Our task is to organize these workers as the most class-conscious and advanced section of the class in the reformist unions.

Freedom is the freedom to know that there are no external constraints upon your changing the world.

The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.

The proletariat must win power.

Only with the authority of the workers, who are guided by a single Central Committee, can the war be brought to a victorious conclusion.

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

Without general elections, without unrestrained freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.

Pessimism is a petty bourgeois attitude.

Genuine politics – even politics worthy of the name – the only politics I am willing to devote myself to – is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

A Marxist must be a revolutionary, but a revolutionary must also be a Marxist.

It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be carefully rationed.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: freedom for the slave-owners.

The goal of socialism is communism.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no State.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

Every cook must learn how to govern the state.

Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

Crime is a product of social excess.

Morality is that which serves to destroy the old exploiting society.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward – or go back. He who now talks about the ‘freedom of the press’ goes backward and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Marxism is alive because it is constantly developing, constantly going into new stages, and because it has been proved correct in the crucibles of struggle against imperialism.

The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.

The truth is on the side of the oppressed.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Give me a child for eight years, and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality.

No one can give you power. It is yours. Take it!

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. You don’t need anything else.

We are not utopians, we do not ‘dream’ of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination.

Every little fish in the sea is free to bark at the whale.

Our task is to organize these workers as the most class-conscious and advanced section of the class in the reformist unions.

Freedom is the freedom to know that there are no external constraints upon your changing the world.

The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.

The proletariat must win power.

Only with the authority of the workers, who are guided by a single Central Committee, can the war be brought to a victorious conclusion.

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

Without general elections, without unrestrained freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.

Pessimism is a petty bourgeois attitude.

Genuine politics – even politics worthy of the name – the only politics I am willing to devote myself to – is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

A Marxist must be a revolutionary, but a revolutionary must also be a Marxist.

It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be carefully rationed.

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