Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as "nonparty," in prison. — 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
