Vladimir Lenin Quotes

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

What the Soviet Constitution gives us no other state has been able to give in two hundred years.

Do everything to demonstrate, and in the most emphatic manner, our sympathy for the Moslems, their autonomy, independence, etc.

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

The proletarian revolution is impossible without the sympathy and support of the overwhelming majority of the working people.

The truth about Kolchak (and his double, Denikin) has now been revealed in full. The shooting of tens of thousands of workers. The shooting even of Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries. The flogging of peasants of entire districts. The public flogging of women. The absolutely unbridled power of the officers, the sons of landowners. Endless looting. Such is the truth about Kolchak and Denikin.

Shame on accursed tsarism which tortured and persecuted the Jews. Shame on those who foment hatred towards the Jews, who foment hatred towards other nations.

The practical activity of man had to lead his consciousness to the reptetition of various logical figures thousands of millions of times in order that these figures could obtain the significance of axioms.

Communism cannot be imposed by force.

The status of women up to now has been compared to that of a slave; women have been tied to the home, and only socialism can save them from this. They will only be completely emancipated when we change from small-scale individual farming to collective farming and collective working of the land.

America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism.

No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.

The capture of Simbirsk, my home town, is a wonderful tonic, the best treatment for my wounds. I feel a new lease of life and energy.

The bourgeoisie are today evading taxation by bribery and through their connections; we must close all loopholes.

History is moving in zig-zags and by roundabout ways.