Vladimir Lenin

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

— Vladimir Lenin

Sometimes quantity has a quality all its own.

— Vladimir Lenin

Destroy the family and you destroy society

— Vladimir Lenin

“Every society is three meals away from chaos”

— Vladimir Lenin

Any cook should be able to run the country.

— Vladimir Lenin

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

— Vladimir Lenin

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

— Vladimir Lenin

The goal of socialism is communism.

— Vladimir Lenin

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.

— Vladimir Lenin

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

— Vladimir Lenin

A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines

— Vladimir Lenin

The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.

— Vladimir Lenin

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

— Vladimir Lenin

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back

— Vladimir Lenin

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.

— Vladimir Lenin

It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.

— Vladimir Lenin

“At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes…

— Vladimir Lenin

The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust…

— Vladimir Lenin

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

— Vladimir Lenin

“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.”

— Vladimir Lenin

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced…

— Vladimir Lenin

In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.

— Vladimir Lenin

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

— Vladimir Lenin

Germany will militarize herself out of existence, England will expand herself out of existence, and America will spend herself out of existence.

— Vladimir Lenin

The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by…

— Vladimir Lenin

It is not national interests we are upholding -- we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank…

— Vladimir Lenin

Our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all…

— Vladimir Lenin

Let the "socialist" snivellers croak, let the bourgeoisie rage and fume, but only people who shut their eyes so as not to…

— Vladimir Lenin

The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted -- or rather tend to be corrupted -- by the conditions…

— Vladimir Lenin

We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not "in the name of capitalism," but in the name of clearing the path for our…

— Vladimir Lenin

Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by…

— Vladimir Lenin

The status of women up to now has been compared to that of a slave; women have been tied to the home,…

— Vladimir Lenin

Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. You must make example of these people. (1) Hang…

— Vladimir Lenin

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action. A plenary meeting of the Soviet must be called to decide on…

— Vladimir Lenin

It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are…

— Vladimir Lenin

By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the…

— Vladimir Lenin

Every question "runs in a vicious circle" because political life as a whole is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number…

— Vladimir Lenin

“Private property based on the labour of the small proprietor, free competition, democracy, i.e., all the catchwords with which the capitalists and…

— Vladimir Lenin

If we can effectively kill the national pride and patriotism of just one generation, we will have won that country. Therefore, there…

— Vladimir Lenin

“In capitalist society, providing it develops under the most favorable conditions, we have a more or less complete democracy in the democratic…

— Vladimir Lenin