Vladimir LeninTrust is good, but control is better.351Truth
Vladimir LeninYou must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms. ✨ Letter to G. F. Fyodorov, August 09, 1918. Collected Works, Volume 35,362Humanity
Vladimir LeninThree keys to success: read, read, read.341Reading
Vladimir LeninDuring the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the … ▶363DeathLifeTime
Vladimir LeninThe history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. ✨ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (2012). Es… ▶352Love
Vladimir LeninFor the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.365Politics
Vladimir LeninWe would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming … ▶332Humanity
Vladimir LeninUnity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.365Thought
Vladimir LeninWhen one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong… ▶344Time
Vladimir LeninIt is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed. ✨ In Sidney and Beatrice Webb Soviet Communism (1936) p. 1036377Truth
Vladimir LeninOne of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.377HumanityPolitics
Vladimir LeninMedicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.312Truth
Vladimir LeninAmerica has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, a… ▶378Humanity
Vladimir LeninIf Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.301Humanity
Vladimir LeninNo amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.345Politics
Vladimir LeninI am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.345Politics
Vladimir LeninOnly an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty. ✨ Vladimir Il'ich Lenin (1975). Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh368Humanity
Vladimir LeninThe entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another. ✨ V. I. Lenin (2008). A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialis… ▶379Humanity
Vladimir LeninThere are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.368DeathPolitics
Vladimir LeninGive me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.346Politics
Vladimir LeninOur idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything, can form an opinion of everything, and do everything co… ▶379HumanityPoliticsThought
Vladimir LeninAttention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'. ✨ Vladimir… ▶303Philosophy
Vladimir LeninWe want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but … ▶281Humanity
Vladimir LeninCommunists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.325Truth
Vladimir LeninCapitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.3710Hope
Vladimir LeninThe Jewish bourgeoisie are our enemies, not as Jews but as bourgeoisie. The Jewish worker is our brother.325Philosophy
Vladimir LeninUnity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.271Sadness
Vladimir LeninIdeological talk and phrase mongering about political liberties should be disposed with; all that is just mere chatter and phrase mongering. We should get away from those phrases.304Politics
Vladimir LeninAll our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it co… ▶304Thought
Vladimir LeninThe best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.271Reading
