Three keys to success: read, read, read.
VLADIMIR LENINThree keys to success: read, read, read.
VLADIMIR LENINWe are not shooting enough professors.
VLADIMIR LENINAmerica 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 LENINDemocracy is indispensable to socialism.
VLADIMIR LENINAutocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.
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 LENINOur program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
VLADIMIR LENINWhen it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.
VLADIMIR LENINOne of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.
VLADIMIR LENINBut every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
VLADIMIR LENINWe do not have time to play at “oppositions” at “conferences.” We will keep our political opponents,whether open or disguised as “nonparty,” in prison.
VLADIMIR LENINOnly an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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 LENINOne cannot live in society and be free from society.
VLADIMIR LENINHonesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
VLADIMIR LENINThe 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