Vladimir Lenin

Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative…

— Vladimir Lenin

The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavour to keep them disunited.

— Vladimir Lenin

Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.

— Vladimir Lenin

It is stupid to tolerate Nikola; all Chekists have to be on alert to shoot anyone who doesn't turn up to work…

— Vladimir Lenin

The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.

— Vladimir Lenin

The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal…

— Vladimir Lenin

When we are victorious on a world scale I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in…

— Vladimir Lenin

Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything,…

— Vladimir Lenin

People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned…

— Vladimir Lenin

For any truth, if “overdone” (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its actual applicability,…

— Vladimir Lenin

All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over…

— Vladimir Lenin

America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of…

— Vladimir Lenin

Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in…

— Vladimir Lenin

I come to the categorical conclusion that precisely at this moment we must give battle to the Black Hundred clergy in the…

— Vladimir Lenin

A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic…

— Vladimir Lenin

Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be…

— Vladimir Lenin

“The bourgeoisie are today evading taxation by bribery and through their connections; we must close all loopholes.”

— Vladimir Lenin

Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.

— Vladimir Lenin

“There are no morals in politics; the is only experience. A scoundrel may be of use because he is a scoundrel”

— Vladimir Lenin

Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.

— Vladimir Lenin

The most important thing is to know how to awaken in the still undeveloped masses an intelligent attitude towards religious questions and…

— Vladimir Lenin

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

— Vladimir Lenin

When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of…

— Vladimir Lenin

Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the…

— Vladimir Lenin

It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a…

— Vladimir Lenin

The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of…

— Vladimir Lenin

Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.

— Vladimir Lenin

For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.

— Vladimir Lenin

The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of…

— Vladimir Lenin

Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the…

— Vladimir Lenin

Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.

— Vladimir Lenin

One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the…

— Vladimir Lenin

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

— Vladimir Lenin

To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.

— Vladimir Lenin

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

— Vladimir Lenin

We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.

— Vladimir Lenin

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with…

— Vladimir Lenin

The constitution of Soviet Russia must insure equal rights for all citizens regardless of sex, creed, race, or nationality.

— Vladimir Lenin

The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavor to keep them disunited.

— Vladimir Lenin

We set ourselves the ultimate aim of abolishing the state, i.e., all organized and systematic violence, all use of violence against people…

— Vladimir Lenin