Lenin Quotes

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All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required a lot of… — Ludwig von Mises
The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he… — Ronald Reagan
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . . Lenin was certainly… — John Maynard Keynes
We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism. — Mao Zedong
It was the Russians that introduced the Chinese to Marxism. Before the October Revolution, the Chinese were not only ignorant of Lenin and Stalin but… — Mao Zedong
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over… — Herbert Hoover
I'm getting a little tired of politicians trying to prove how 'moderate' and 'centrist' they are by taking more of my money and freedom. Where's… — Ann Coulter
Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the… — Jimmy Carter
Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker. — Isaiah Berlin
We decided it here. Ilyich [Lenin] believed that we shouldn't leave the Whites a live banner to rally around, especially under the present difficult circumstances. — Yakov Sverdlov
However much an ideologue tries to bury [Lenin] beneath a proof by historical analysis, there is always this one man standing their on the plain… — Louis Althusser
I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which… — Charles Bukowski
Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical, so long as… — Nicolae Ceausescu
In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning and comprehensive document,… — Paul Robeson
By sending Lenin to Russia our (German) Government had, moreover, assumed a great responsibility. From a miliaty point of view his journey was justified, for… — Boris Brasol
Lenin had taken part in Jewish student meetings in Switzerland thirty-five years before. — Chaim Weizmann
According to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible.... The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives the… — Mikhail Gorbachev
I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather… — Russell Kirk
If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay! — Andrei Platonov
Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold. — Peter Kropotkin

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