Lenin Quote by Jacques Pauw

“They looked cheerful in the photograph, Lenin and his wife. As though they had a new refrigerator in their drawing room, and a down…

— Arundhati Roy

“So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)”

— Robert Walser

“The most important one was the belief, which went back to Lenin, that capitalists would never be able to cooperate with one another for…

— John Lewis Gaddis

“Lenin only believes in the revolution and in the virtue of expediency.'One must be prepared for every sacrifice, to use, if necessary, every stratagem,…

— albert camus

“As the old Russian joke goes, capitalism was the exploitation of man by man, whereas communism was the reverse.”

— J.M.R. Higgs

Utterly absorbing… If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take you there.

— Jack F. Matlock, Jr

“As Khrushchev put it, “He prodded the capitalist world with the tip of his bayonet.” He himself put it, “If I see a door…

— Paul Johnson

“Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza with roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx had just shared an…

— Daniel Suarez

“Lenin turned to page 2 of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. There, a short report informed of a revolution in Petrograd. Lenin, too, looked u…

— China Miéville

“Morally, there was the extreme disappointment at the failure of the classical socialist ideal. The great ideal of Marxism had failed to materialize. The…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him…

— Ellen Willis

“Lenin promised freedom and liberty, and yet I and countless others are in chains. He swore he’d rid this country of the secret police,…

— Glenn Meade