Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.” — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not "in the name of capitalism," but in the name of clearing the path for our… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything,… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but,… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact,… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“In capitalist society, providing it develops under the most favorable conditions, we have a more or less complete democracy in the democratic… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Our power does not know liberty or justice. It is established on the destruction of the individual will. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“Private property based on the labour of the small proprietor, free competition, democracy, i.e., all the catchwords with which the capitalists and their press… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
International unity of the workers is more important than the national. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organisations in particular, might… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
