Vladimir Lenin quotes

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State. (Vladimir Lenin)
People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises. View quote
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One cannot live in society and be free from society. View quote
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The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses. View quote
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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness. View quote
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One man with a gun can control 100 without one. View quote
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Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement. View quote
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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed. View quote
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament! View quote
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. View quote
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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. (Vladimir Lenin)
Every cook has to learn how to govern the state. View quote
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The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. View quote
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There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel. View quote
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Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot. View quote
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Sometimes - history needs a push. View quote
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A lie told often enough becomes the truth. View quote
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The goal of socialism is communism. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
It is stupid to tolerate "Nikola;" all Chekists have to be on alert to shoot anyone who doesn't turn up to work because of "Nikola." View quote
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The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted - or rather tend to be corrupted - by the conditions of capitalism and betray a tendency to become bureaucrats, i. e., privileged persons divorced from the people and standing above the people. View quote
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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 nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of petty-bourgeois Anarchism. And the struggle against these elements cannot be waged with propaganda and agitation alone. ... The struggle must also be waged by applying force and compulsion. View quote
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You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action. A plenary meeting of the Soviet must be called to decide on mass searches in Petrograd and the goods stations. To carry out these searches, each factory and company must form contingents, not on a voluntary basis: it must be the duty of everyone to take part in these searches under the threat of being deprived of his bread card. We can't expect to get anywhere unless we resort to terrorism: speculators must be shot on the spot. Moreover, bandits must be dealt with just as resolutely: they must be shot on the spot. View quote
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Man's consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
One will readily agree that any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may posses, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war. View quote
Vladimir Lenin