Top 34 V I Lenin Quotes
#2. One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.
Vladimir Lenin
#3. Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
#4. War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished.
Vladimir Lenin
#5. When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.
Vladimir Lenin
#7. If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.
Mikhail Bakunin
#8. You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw
Vladimir Lenin
#9. Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.
Vladimir Lenin
#10. Any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may possess, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war.
Vladimir Lenin
#11. The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.
Vladimir Lenin
#12. I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#13. Lenin, Stalin, and Rakosi recognized that a renewed and purified Christianity was the only force that could move the masses as powerfully as the Marxist ideal could. They attacked it as the enemy that it was and is.
Charles Colson
#15. The German leaders, said Winston Churchill, turned upon Russia the most grisly of all weapons. They transported Lenin in a sealed truck like a plague bacillus from Switzerland into Russia.
Robert K. Massie
#16. Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical, so long as it is in the interest of the proletarian class and its world revolution.
Nicolae Ceausescu
#17. Marx made theory ... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization ... And Henry Ford made the work of the socialist state possible.
Diego Rivera
#18. One must not count in thousands, like the propagandist belonging to a small group that has not yet given leadership to the masses; in these circumstances one must count in millions and tens of millions.
Vladimir Lenin
#19. People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
Vladimir Lenin
#20. I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid nice things and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
#21. An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.
Vladimir Lenin
#22. My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin.
Leonid Hurwicz
#23. Usually, after a disagreement, they suggested i read this or that, often Marx, Lenin, or Engels. I preferred Ho Chi Minh, Kim Il Sung, Che, or Fidel, but i ended up having to get into Marx and Lenin just to understand a lot of the speeches and stuff Huey Newton was putting out.
Assata Shakur
#24. It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.
Nina Simone
#25. So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)
Robert Walser
#26. 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.
Vladimir Lenin
#27. For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.
Vladimir Lenin
#28. I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead ...
Mickey Spillane
#29. Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza with roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx had just shared an apartment, perhaps a hundred million lives might have been spared and put to productive use making sneakers and office furniture.
Daniel Suarez
#30. Lenin's ideal was to build a nation's production effort according to the model of the post office.
Ludwig Von Mises
#33. Sometimes a scoundrel is useful to our party precisely because he is a scoundrel. V. I. Lenin
Catherine Merridale
#34. Human dignity is something one need not look for in the world of capitalists. V. I. Lenin
Catherine Merridale
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