Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich quotes
1870-1924 Russian Revolutionary LeaderIt is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Freedom
Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Communism and Socialism
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Communism and Socialism
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.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Despair
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.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Freedom of Speech
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Freedom
Any cook should be able to run the country.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Government
The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Illness
You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Housework
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Masses
Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Literature
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Intelligence and Intellectuals
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Politicians and Politics
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.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Socializing and Socialism
I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don t eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Self-improvement
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
State
You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Children
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Capitalism
All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Heroes and Heroism
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Authority
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Working Class