Vladimir Lenin

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

— Vladimir Lenin

Man’s consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.

— Vladimir Lenin

Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.

— Vladimir Lenin

History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.

— Vladimir Lenin

Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.

— Vladimir Lenin

Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.

— Vladimir Lenin

There can be nothing more abominable than religion.

— Vladimir Lenin

No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.

— Vladimir Lenin

The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust…

— Vladimir Lenin

“At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes…

— Vladimir Lenin

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

— Vladimir Lenin

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

— Vladimir Lenin

In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.

— Vladimir Lenin

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced…

— Vladimir Lenin

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.

— Vladimir Lenin

Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have…

— Vladimir Lenin

Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to…

— Vladimir Lenin

All contemporary religions and churches, all and every kind of religious organization, Marxism has always viewed as organs of bourgeois reaction, serving…

— Vladimir Lenin

Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by…

— Vladimir Lenin

The status of women up to now has been compared to that of a slave; women have been tied to the home,…

— Vladimir Lenin

The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the…

— Vladimir Lenin

The whole struggle of our Party (and of the working class movement in Europe generally) must be directed against opportunism. The latter…

— Vladimir Lenin

No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death…

— Vladimir Lenin

Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but,…

— Vladimir Lenin

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

— Vladimir Lenin

It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.

— Vladimir Lenin

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

— Vladimir Lenin

One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.

— Vladimir Lenin

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

— Vladimir Lenin

One quick way to destroy a society is through its music.

— Vladimir Lenin

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

— Vladimir Lenin

One cannot live in society and be free from society.

— Vladimir Lenin

You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.

— Vladimir Lenin

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

— Vladimir Lenin

Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

— Vladimir Lenin

Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.

— Vladimir Lenin

Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.

— Vladimir Lenin

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

— Vladimir Lenin

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.

— Vladimir Lenin

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.

— Vladimir Lenin