I don’t care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
VLADIMIR LENINI don’t care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
VLADIMIR LENINThe 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 LENINThe goal of socialism is communism.
VLADIMIR LENINAtheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
VLADIMIR LENINThe aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.
VLADIMIR LENINWhen a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.
VLADIMIR LENINFree speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
VLADIMIR LENINDon’t be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.
VLADIMIR LENINCapitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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 LENINThe establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
VLADIMIR LENINOne must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
VLADIMIR LENINGive me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.
VLADIMIR LENINComrade 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 LENINGive me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
VLADIMIR LENINOnly an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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