Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state. Vladimir Lenin More Quotes by Vladimir Lenin More Quotes From Vladimir Lenin Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness. Vladimir Lenin honestyfreedomhypocrisy The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. Vladimir Lenin crushpoliticalinteresting Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class. Vladimir Lenin abstractclassmean 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. Vladimir Lenin eugenicspeopleyears The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. Vladimir Lenin distribution-of-wealthwayinteresting We must not depict socialism as if socialists will bring it to us on a plate all nicely dressed. That will never happen. Not a single problem of the class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence. When violence is exercised by the working people, by the mass of exploited against the exploiters -- then we are for it! Vladimir Lenin struggleclasspeople Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost. Vladimir Lenin causesintelligentpeople One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour. Vladimir Lenin wiseanswersmen 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! Vladimir Lenin warpeopleenemy Fascism is capitalism in decay. Vladimir Lenin decaypoliticspolitical You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind. Vladimir Lenin communisttreasuremind I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution. Vladimir Lenin russiacareworld During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation†of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it. Vladimir Lenin namesclasslying Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism. Vladimir Lenin propagandaprogramatheism The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation. Vladimir Lenin central-banksnationsestablishment Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. Vladimir Lenin slave-ownerstyrantsfreedom One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class. Vladimir Lenin victoryclassamerica Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will. Vladimir Lenin strugglemindclass Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations -- all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism. Vladimir Lenin oligarchypowerfulnumbers Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with. Vladimir Lenin sellscapitalistrope
