Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude. Vladimir Lenin More Quotes by Vladimir Lenin More Quotes From Vladimir Lenin In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority. Vladimir Lenin minoritiesdemocracypeople No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself. Vladimir Lenin revolution When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand to oppress more people, then the question of the origin of the war is of no real economic or political significance. Vladimir Lenin realwarhands You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action. A plenary meeting of the Soviet must be called to decide on mass searches in Petrograd and the goods stations. To carry out Vladimir Lenin breadactioncards I come to the categorical conclusion that precisely at this moment we must give battle to the Black Hundred clergy in the most decisive and merciless manner and crush its resistance with Vladimir Lenin crushnumbersgiving Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. Vladimir Lenin democracyrevolutionarymovement Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps. Vladimir Lenin sacrificebusinessmen The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of petty-bourgeois Anarchism. And the struggle against these elements cannot be waged with propaganda and agitation alone. ... The struggle must also be waged by applying force and compulsion. Vladimir Lenin agitationmilitarystruggle This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of the Economists look with sincere resentment upon all theoretical controversies, factional disagreements, broad political questions, plans for organising revolutionaries, etc. Vladimir Lenin majoritypoliticalcriticism Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects. Vladimir Lenin recognitionmindideas We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not "in the name of capitalism," but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism. Vladimir Lenin democracymovementnames Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed. Vladimir Lenin crushcreatingarmy If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration? Vladimir Lenin essenceclassmean It is necessary to be able to withstand all this, to agree to any and every sacrifice, and even - if need be - to resort to all sorts of stratagems, manoeuvres and illegal methods, to evasion and subterfuges in order to penetrate the trade unions, to remain in them, and to carry on Communist work in them at all costs. Vladimir Lenin sacrificeableorder The most important thing is to know how to awaken in the still undeveloped masses an intelligent attitude towards religious questions and an intelligent criticism of religions. Vladimir Lenin intelligentreligiousattitude Any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may possess, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war. Vladimir Lenin warmeanart The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart. Vladimir Lenin inspiring-loveimportantheart But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism. Vladimir Lenin democracycommunicationmean For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation. Vladimir Lenin realbreadtime Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'. Vladimir Lenin levelstasksattention
