Lenin's ideal was to build a nation's production effort according to the model of the post office. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world… — Dmitri Volkogonov Copy Share Image
“They looked cheerful in the photograph, Lenin and his wife. As though they had a new refrigerator in their drawing room, and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
“Oltre a tua sorella, oltre a Lenin e Gesù, non hai nessun altro di prossimo al mondo?” — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I began to despise Lenin, even when I was in the first grade, not so much because of his political philosophy or… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Lenin turned to page 2 of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. There, a short report informed of a revolution in Petrograd. Lenin, too,… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Lenin in 1921 observed very presciently that motion pictures were the most powerful tool ever invented to shape the way we thought.… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
Do you honestly think Lenin is any different from J.P. Morgan? That you, if you were given absolute power, would behave any… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
“I think you are wise. You haven't got what it takes for this job. You are like Rosemary's father. He couldn't understand… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“No artist has painted A true portrait of Lenin Ages to come will complete Lenin's unfinished portrait. Did Poletaev understand the tragic… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus… — Michael Johns Copy Share Image
The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
By sending Lenin to Russia our (German) Government had, moreover, assumed a great responsibility. From a miliaty point of view his journey… — Boris Brasol Copy Share Image
“He who does not cry out the truth when he knows the truth becomes the accomplice of the liars and falsifiers.” — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none. — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to… — Andrei Platonov Copy Share Image
Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold. — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Why is Earth Day, today, also Lenin's birthday? Coincidence? Or does it signal the true intent of the national and worldwide environmental… — Alan Caruba Copy Share Image
“Lenin conceded that he had ‘retreated’ from the economic ambitions of 1919–20. ‘We made a mistake,’ he admitted, in thinking that the… — David Priestland Copy Share Image
“Lenin promised freedom and liberty, and yet I and countless others are in chains. He swore he’d rid this country of the… — Glenn Meade Copy Share Image
[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir]… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Russia is now very far from being a communist country, but when I walked around Moscow, I kept glimpsing these haunting images.… — Martina Navratilova Copy Share Image
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Marx… Lenin… Mao Tse-Tung… These men were animated by the love of brother and this we must believe though their ends meant… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image