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 LENINThere are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
VLADIMIR LENINFascism is capitalism in decay.
VLADIMIR LENINIt is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
VLADIMIR LENINPacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
VLADIMIR LENINGive me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.
VLADIMIR LENINOne cannot live in society and be free from society.
VLADIMIR LENINThe way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
VLADIMIR LENINAuthority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
VLADIMIR LENINWhenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
VLADIMIR LENINGive me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
VLADIMIR LENINI don’t care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
VLADIMIR LENINIt is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
VLADIMIR LENINOf all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
VLADIMIR LENINAny cook should be able to run the country.
VLADIMIR LENINNo Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.
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