But I can’t listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.
VLADIMIR LENINFascism is capitalism in decay.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
-
-
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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 -
But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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 -
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
We are not shooting enough professors.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not “in the name of capitalism,” but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
We 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 LENIN -
Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
The 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 LENIN -
But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.
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 -
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
How can you make a revolution without executions?
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 -
One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
One 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 LENIN -
The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
VLADIMIR LENIN