Vladimir Lenin

For any truth, if overdone ... if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity.

— Vladimir Lenin

The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.

— Vladimir Lenin

Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its…

— Vladimir Lenin

Recovery proceeding excellently. Am sure that the crushing of the Kazan Czechs and whiteguards, as well as of the kulak extortioners supporting…

— Vladimir Lenin

One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the…

— Vladimir Lenin

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

— Vladimir Lenin

To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.

— Vladimir Lenin

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

— Vladimir Lenin

Perfect definition of atheist dogma. Your mind has been subjected to subtle mental conditioning year after year. Now the atheist lie has…

— Vladimir Lenin

Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when…

— Vladimir Lenin

Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures…

— Vladimir Lenin

You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased…

— Vladimir Lenin

Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact,…

— Vladimir Lenin

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them.…

— Vladimir Lenin

Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for…

— Vladimir Lenin

Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but,…

— Vladimir Lenin

The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavor to keep them disunited.

— Vladimir Lenin

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

But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course…

— Vladimir Lenin

We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.

— Vladimir Lenin

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with…

— Vladimir Lenin

The constitution of Soviet Russia must insure equal rights for all citizens regardless of sex, creed, race, or nationality.

— Vladimir Lenin

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice…

— Vladimir Lenin

Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population defenseless.

— Vladimir Lenin

I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.

— Vladimir Lenin

The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.

— Vladimir Lenin

Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative…

— Vladimir Lenin

Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular…

— Vladimir Lenin

Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people.

— Vladimir Lenin

The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the…

— Vladimir Lenin

You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.

— Vladimir Lenin

Ideological talk and phrase mongering about political liberties should be disposed with; all that is just mere chatter and phrase mongering. We…

— Vladimir Lenin

Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.

— Vladimir Lenin

We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as…

— Vladimir Lenin

Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.

— Vladimir Lenin

Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything,…

— Vladimir Lenin

“The bourgeoisie are today evading taxation by bribery and through their connections; we must close all loopholes.”

— Vladimir Lenin

Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.

— Vladimir Lenin

“There are no morals in politics; the is only experience. A scoundrel may be of use because he is a scoundrel”

— Vladimir Lenin

Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.

— Vladimir Lenin