Quotes Vladimir Lenin
Quotes by and about Vladimir Lenin
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― VLADIMIR LENIN. “Crime is a product of social excess.” ― VLADIMIR LENIN. “The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.” ― VLADIMIR LENIN. More Vladimir Lenin Quotes Below: 18. The only authentic, sourced list of quotes by Lenin on the Internet. The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation of that labour.
Lenin: 'The only choice is: bourgeois or socialist. ... There is no middle course. ... To belittle [socialism] in any way ... means to strengthen the bourgeois.'
Lenin: 'Only those who are not sure of themselves can fear to enter into temporary alliances even with unreliable people; not a single political party could exist without such alliances.'
Lenin: 'He who does not deliberately close his eyes cannot fail to see that ... 'freedom of criticism' means freedom ... to introduce bourgeois ideas into socialism.'
Lenin: 'Those who have the slightest acquaintance with the actual state of our movement cannot but see that the wide spread of Marxism was accompanied by a certain lowering of the theoretical level. Quite a number of people with very little and even a total lack of theoretical training joined the movement because of its practical significance and its practical successes.'
Neal Bascomb: 'Although a brooding introvert, Lenin enjoyed an easy childhood and won good marks in school.'
Robert Service: 'Lenin was an able suppressor of outward emotion.'
Sun Yat-sen: 'Through the ages of world history thousands of ... scholars appeared who spoke eloquent words, but these remained but words. ... Lenin [was] an exception. ... [He] translated [his] words into deeds.'
Hans Mortensen: 'From an early age, Lenin threw himself into the works of Karl Marx and started interpreting and developing his ideas about Communism. Lenin was quick to convince himself that he alone possessed full insight into the intentions of the master.'
Hans Mortensen: '[Lenin appeared to believe that] Marxism was the objective truth. And when an objective truth exists, opinions are unnecessary, indeed harmful.'
Renato Alarcon: 'Lenin was not interested in debate or disagreement and felt [that he was] completely correct.'
Georgi Plekhanov [referring to Lenin:] 'Of such stuff Robespierres are made.'
Niall Ferguson: 'No other socialist leaders were as ruthless as Lenin in adopting 'democratic centralism' (which was the opposite of democratic), rejecting parliamentarism and engaging in terrorism against opponents. Some of what the Bolsheviks did (the nationalization of banks, the confiscation of land) was straight out of Marx and Engels's Manifesto. Some of what they did ('the greatest ferocity and savagery of suppression ... seas of blood') owed more to Robespierre. The 'dictatorship of the proletariat' - which in fact meant the dictatorship of the Bolshevik leadership - was Lenin's original contribution.'
Rupert Evans: 'Lenin was the wizard, Stalin his apprentice.'
[Lenin's sister:] 'All the speculations that [Lenin's] relations with Stalin were not good ... are totally contrary to the truth.'
[Lenin's sister:] 'Lenin highly valued Stalin.'
VLADIMIR LENIN QUOTES
Russian revolutionary (1870-1924)
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Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.
VLADIMIR LENIN
'Meeting of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee', November 4, 1917
No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals; war on the rogues, the idlers and the rowdies!
VLADIMIR LENIN
You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
VLADIMIR LENIN
attributed, Not By Politics Alone
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
VLADIMIR LENIN
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
VLADIMIR LENIN
attributed, Not By Politics Alone
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.
VLADIMIR LENIN
Quantity has a quality all its own.
VLADIMIR LENIN
attributed, How to Make War
Sometimes ... history needs a push.
VLADIMIR LENIN
attributed, Seeds of Revolution: A Collection of Axioms, Passages and Proverbs
It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives. It is far more difficult--and far more precious--to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist.
VLADIMIR LENIN
In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority.
VLADIMIR LENIN
The State and Revolution
For any truth, if overdone ... if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity.
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.
VLADIMIR LENIN
The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism
If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration?
VLADIMIR LENIN
'Dogmatism and Freedom of Criticism', What Is To Be Done?
Quotes About Vladimir Lenin
Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.
VLADIMIR LENIN
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
VLADIMIR LENIN
Report to Seventh Congress of the Russian Communist Party, March 7, 1918
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
VLADIMIR LENIN
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament.
VLADIMIR LENIN
The State and Revolution
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
VLADIMIR LENIN
attributed, The Great Book Of Best Quotes Of All Time
When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand to oppress more people, then the question of the origin of the war is of no real economic or political significance.
VLADIMIR LENIN
If 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.
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VLADIMIR LENIN
Vladimir Lenin Quotes On Communism
speech at Peasant's Congress in Petrograd, November 27, 1917
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