Vladimir Lenin Quotes - Page 6

The Jewish bourgeoisie are our enemies, not as Jews but as bourgeoisie. The Jewish worker is our brother.

Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority.

Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.

The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust the bourgeoisie.

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

Sometimes quantity has a quality all its own.

Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.

It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin.

The constitution of Soviet Russia must insure equal rights for all citizens regardless of sex, creed, race, or nationality.

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.

Our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man by man and nation by nation, will inevitably eliminate the very possibility of war.

The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.

Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.

We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any form of superstition, reaction, or defence of bourgeois oppression. It is the legitimate successor to the best that man produced in the nineteenth century, as represented by German philosophy, English political economy and French socialism.

Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.

Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.

To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.