For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army. — 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
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
The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
It is not national interests we are upholding -- we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank… — 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
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share
Our power does not know liberty or justice. It is established on the destruction of the individual will. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share
For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share
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
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share
“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
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
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
People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share
One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share
