Vladimir Lenin Quotes

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.

Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.

The goal of socialism is communism.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.

The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.

The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.

Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.

Germany will militarize herself out of existence, England will expand herself out of existence, and America will spend herself out of existence.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

As an ultimate objective, "peace" simply means communist world control.

Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.

It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.