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 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 LENINOur program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
VLADIMIR LENINA democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.
VLADIMIR LENINThose who are opposed to armed uprising. Must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
VLADIMIR LENINCapitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
VLADIMIR LENINThe best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
VLADIMIR LENINYou must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
VLADIMIR LENINFascism is capitalism in decay.
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 LENINAny cook should be able to run the country.
VLADIMIR LENINI don’t care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
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 LENINThe only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.
VLADIMIR LENINThe press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
VLADIMIR LENINGive me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
VLADIMIR LENINPacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
VLADIMIR LENIN