Quotes By Vladimir Lenin

Top Best Quotes By Vladimir Lenin

1. Fascism is capitalism in decay.

2. Sometimes – history needs a push.

3. Crime is a product of social excess.

4. No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

5. Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

6. The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.

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

8. Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

9. Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

10. Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.

11. The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

12. War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished and Socialism is created.

13. There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

14. It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

15. Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

16. The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

17. It is more pleasant and useful to go through the ’experience of the revolution’ than to write about it.

18. One man with a gun can control 100 without one…. Make mass searches and hold executions for found arms.

19. He who now talks about the “freedom of the press” goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

20. Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

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

22. There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

23. Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

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

25. Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

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

27. One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers and the disarming of the bourgeoisie (the middle class).

28. If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

29. In the history of modern socialism this is a phenomenon, that the strife of the various trends within the socialist movement has from national become international.