It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson. Vladimir Lenin More Quotes by Vladimir Lenin More Quotes From Vladimir Lenin An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action. Vladimir Lenin violenceactionwar Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country. Vladimir Lenin socialismpowercountry Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when the working people themselves take power in their hands the ruling classes resort to unheard-of crimes and shootings if it is a matter of protecting their money-bags. Vladimir Lenin classhandspeople Every cook has to learn how to govern the state. Vladimir Lenin learningrevolutionarycooking We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon incomprehension of the tasks of the proletarian dictatorship, are totally alien to Marxism, and, as a matter of fact, serve only to postpone the socialist revolution until people are different. No, we want the socialist revolution with people as they are now, with people who cannot dispense with subordination, control, and "foremen and accountants". Vladimir Lenin differentdreampeople Democracy is indispensable to socialism. Vladimir Lenin democracylibertyhistorical Ideological talk and phrase mongering about political liberties should be disposed with; all that is just mere chatter and phrase mongering. We should get away from those phrases. Vladimir Lenin phraseslibertypolitical One must not count in thousands, like the propagandist belonging to a small group that has not yet given leadership to the masses; in these circumstances one must count in millions and tens of millions. Vladimir Lenin massgroupsgiven Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom. Vladimir Lenin atheismpromisereligion Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement. Vladimir Lenin revolutionarymovementtheory The constitution of Soviet Russia must insure equal rights for all citizens regardless of sex, creed, race, or nationality. Vladimir Lenin russiarightssex It is in prison ... that one becomes a real revolutionary. Vladimir Lenin revolutionaryprisonreal Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in the last analysis reflects the tendencies and ideology of the antagonistic classes in modern society. Vladimir Lenin partystrugglephilosophy Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense. Vladimir Lenin democracypoliticalwant We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles. Vladimir Lenin churchordermean Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin. Vladimir Lenin millionsmassserious All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious. Vladimir Lenin democracyfreedommay Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror. Vladimir Lenin determinedrevolutionarykind Those who are really convinced that they have made progress in science would not demand freedom for the new views to continue side by side with the old, but the substitution of the new views for the old. Vladimir Lenin progressviewssides Every cook must learn to rule the State. Vladimir Lenin cooksstates
