Autocracy 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 LENINDemocracy is indispensable to socialism.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
-
-
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 -
Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
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 -
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
VLADIMIR LENIN -
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
VLADIMIR LENIN






