Quotes By Vladimir Lenin

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

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

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

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

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.

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

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

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

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

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

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

If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

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

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.

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

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.

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

People have always been and will always be silly victims of deception and self-deception in politics, unless they learn to recognize the interests of certain classes behind any moral, religious, political, social phrases, statements, promises.