Vladimir Lenin Quotes

8 quotes from 8 authors

Vladimir Lenin’s name still sparks debate across history. This modest set gathers eight brief quotations from eight different authors, each touching a facet of his role in shaping early Soviet power. While the list is short, it points toward larger conversations about the Russian Revolution, totalitarianism, and 20th‑century politics—topics you might explore on the related pages.

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“A few weeks later, in the middle of a cold December night, the pair, along with 247 other radicals, were herded onto…

James McGrath Morris

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“In “What Happened,” Clinton, by way of demanding national resolve against a Russian threat, quotes a maxim attributed to Vladimir Lenin: “You…

David Remnick

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“It's been said that he subscribes to Vladimir Lenin's old adage: "Probe with bayonets. If you encounter mush, proceed; if you encounter…

Hillary Rodham Clinton

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[Vladimir] Lenin died in January, 1924; three months later [Joseph] Stalin expounded in writing Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution.

Leon Trotsky

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“As Vladimir Lenin once reportedly said, “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” Although Obama did not drink deeply at this…

Jack Cashill

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“On March 23, 1919, one of the most famous socialists in Italy founded a new party, the Fasci di Combattimento, a term…

Dinesh D'Souza

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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

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If you look at the movement of refugees, in Vladimir Lenin's phrase, "the people who voted with their feet," the movement of…

Bernard Lewis

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