It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.
VLADIMIR LENINIt would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.
VLADIMIR LENINLearning is never done without errors and defeat.
VLADIMIR LENINWe 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 LENINOnly by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
VLADIMIR LENINOne must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
VLADIMIR LENINNo amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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 revolutionary action.
VLADIMIR LENINIt is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
VLADIMIR LENINWe need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
VLADIMIR LENINSoviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
VLADIMIR LENINThe best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
VLADIMIR LENINThe only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.
VLADIMIR LENINWe are not shooting enough professors.
VLADIMIR LENINThe 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 LENINOne 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 LENINThe bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy’s cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.
VLADIMIR LENIN