The Bolshevik slogans and ideas on the whole have been confirmed by history; but concretely things have worked out differently; they are more original, more peculiar, more varied than anyone could have expected. Vladimir Lenin More Quotes by Vladimir Lenin More Quotes From Vladimir Lenin Every cook must learn to rule the State. Vladimir Lenin cooks states History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem. Vladimir Lenin political essence military To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary- constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics. Vladimir Lenin crush real years Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation. Vladimir Lenin recreation occupation chess Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat. Vladimir Lenin causes party literature Recovery proceeding excellently. Am sure that the crushing of the Kazan Czechs and whiteguards, as well as of the kulak extortioners supporting them, will be exemplarily ruthless. Vladimir Lenin ruthless recovery crush Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics. Vladimir Lenin democracy freedom expression The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief. Vladimir Lenin relief alternatives war The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes. Vladimir Lenin car men moving We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all. Vladimir Lenin haste two years When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class. Vladimir Lenin proletariat states class Every question "runs in a vicious circle" because political life as a whole is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number of links. The whole art of politics lies in finding and taking as firm a grip as we can of the link that is least likely to be struck from our hands, the one that is most important at the given moment, the one that most of all guarantees its possessor the possession of the whole chain. Vladimir Lenin running lying art The status of women up to now has been compared to that of a slave; women have been tied to the home, and only socialism can save them from this. They will only be completely emancipated when we change from small-scale individual farming to collective farming and collective working of the land. Vladimir Lenin socialism land home Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths. Vladimir Lenin absolute-truth doe giving To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics. Vladimir Lenin rely-upon taken spiritual We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action. Vladimir Lenin communication war people Let the "socialist" snivellers croak, let the bourgeoisie rage and fume, but only people who shut their eyes so as not to see, and stuff their ears so as not to hear, can fail to notice that all over the world the birth pangs of the old, capitalist society, which is pregnant with socialism, have begun. Vladimir Lenin bourgeoisie eye people All countries will inevitably have to do what Russia has done. Vladimir Lenin russia done country When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back Vladimir Lenin freedom-of-speech mark revolution Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers. Vladimir Lenin failing men people
