Quotes from Vladimir Lenin

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

Trust is good, but control is better.

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

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

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.

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.

Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.

But 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.

Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.

He loved her with the fire of a thousand suns, she was his solace in the chaos, his redemption.

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

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Crime is a product of social excess.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

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

War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished.

All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.

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

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced countries and outdistance them, too, in economic matters.