Vladimir Lenin famous quotes

Fascism is capitalism in decay.
-- Vladimir Lenin

#Decay #Revolutionary #Conspiracy

If we can effectively kill the national pride and patriotism of just one generation, we will have won that country. Therefore, there must be continued propaganda abroad to undermine the loyalty of citizens in general, and teenagers in particular. By making drugs of various kinds readily available, by creating the necessary attitude of chaos, idleness and worthlessness, and by preparing him psychologically and politically, we can succeed.
-- Vladimir Lenin

#Loyalty #Country #Attitude

One quick way to destroy a society is through its music.
-- Vladimir Lenin

#Way

One cannot live in society and be free from society.
-- Vladimir Lenin

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

#Crush #Interesting #Political

Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
-- Vladimir Lenin

#Children #Years #Giving

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
-- Vladimir Lenin

#Interesting #Way #Currency

The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
-- Vladimir Lenin

#Way

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

#Teacher #Children #Years

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
-- Vladimir Lenin

#Men #Gun #Leader

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

#Freedom #Tyrants #Political

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
-- Vladimir Lenin

#Revolutionary #Cold War

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

#Reality #Revolution #Impossible

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
-- Vladimir Lenin

#Week

A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.
-- Vladimir Lenin

#Gun #Perfect #Bourgeoisie

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

#Justice #Political #Atheism

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

#Class #Years #Politics

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
-- Vladimir Lenin

#Interesting #Mass #Should

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

#Time #Insomnia #Law

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.
-- Vladimir Lenin

#Cancer #Heart #Important

Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
-- Vladimir Lenin

#Inspirational #Errors #Done

Sometimes - history needs a push.
-- Vladimir Lenin

#Needs #Sometimes

The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and their solution.
-- Vladimir Lenin

#Men #Reflection #Contradiction

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.
-- Vladimir Lenin

#War #Relief #Alternatives

Any cook should be able to run the country.
-- Vladimir Lenin

#Running #Country #Able

The goal of socialism is communism.
-- Vladimir Lenin

#Goal #Historical #Socialism

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
-- Vladimir Lenin

#Truth #Lying #Interesting

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
-- Vladimir Lenin

#Atheism #Propaganda #Program

Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.
-- Vladimir Lenin

#World #Triumph #Communism

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

#Business #Sacrifice #Men

The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.
-- Vladimir Lenin

#Heart #Inspiring Love #Important

People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.
-- Vladimir Lenin

#Religious #Self #Class

We must hate - hatred is the basis of communism. Children must be taught to hate their parents if they are not communists.
-- Vladimir Lenin

#Children #Hate #Hatred

We 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 all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society.
-- Vladimir Lenin

#Order #People #Machines

We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.
-- Vladimir Lenin

#Mean #Order #Church