Trust is good, but control is better.
VLADIMIR LENINWhenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
-
-
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
Any cook should be able to run the country.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
One cannot live in society and be free from society.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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 -
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 -
Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
America 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, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.
VLADIMIR LENIN