Selected quotes by

Lenin

1870 - 1924 (54)

Lenin
12 quotes
Quote 1

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

Quote 2

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.

Quote 3

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

Quote 4

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Quote 5

So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.

Quote 6

The goal of socialism is communism.

Quote 7

Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.

Quote 8

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

Quote 9

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

Quote 10

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Quote 11

No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals; war on the rogues, the idlers and the rowdies!

Quote 12

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.