Vladimir Lenin Quotes - Page 2

We are not shooting enough professors.

There can be nothing more abominable than religion.

Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.

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.

I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by the use of violence by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

The 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.

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.

You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.

Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.

How can you make a revolution without executions?

Trust is good, but control is better.

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.

We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society.

You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.

Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.

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.

Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.

The only one who doesn't make mistakes is the one who doesn't do anything.

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.

No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.

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.