Lenin Quotes

71 Lenin quotes by 58 unique authors

People I meet today, especially journalists who interview me, are astonished to hear that Lenin told me, in effect, that Communism was not working and… — Armand Hammer
W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a… — Samuel Gompers
The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness… — Ernest Mandel
In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power. — Mikhail Gorbachev
Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power. — Garet Garrett
The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money.… — Eric Hoffer
Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed by selected quotations… — Tom Clancy
I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a… — Daniel Silva
The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin,… — Eric Hoffer
It's a real enigma why people are so averse to real free market capitalism even now. Here we are, in the century that has seen… — Joseph Sobran
Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera… — Winston Churchill
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands… — Ronald Reagan
The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China… — Daniel Yergin
It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts… — Aldous Huxley
Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none. — Peter Kropotkin
The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through… — Mahatma Gandhi
Do you honestly think Lenin is any different from J.P. Morgan? That you, if you were given absolute power, would behave any differently? Do you… — Dennis Lehane
This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginningâ€”from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this,… — John Steinbeck
This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and… — Orson Scott Card
Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza iwth roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx had just shard an apartment,… — Daniel Suarez

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