Quotes from Vladimir Lenin

Peace, Land, and Bread! All power to the Soviet!

You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.

There can be nothing more abominable than religion.

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.

One cannot live in society and be free from society.

Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

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

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

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

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

Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.

For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.

We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as "nonparty," in prison.