When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. — 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
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take… — 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
Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is an act whereby… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards. — 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
