There can be nothing more abominable than religion. Vladimir Lenin More Quotes by Vladimir Lenin More Quotes From Vladimir Lenin Man’s consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it. Vladimir Lenin consciousness men world He who does not work shall not eat Vladimir Lenin doe Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever. Vladimir Lenin eight children years One cannot live in society and be free from society. Vladimir Lenin You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased to be the work of a single socialist of the nineteenth century, even though he was a genius, and that it has become the doctrine of millions and tens of millions of proletarians all over the world, who are applying it in their struggle against capitalism. Vladimir Lenin doctrine genius struggle The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another. Vladimir Lenin domination trends development But I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell. Vladimir Lenin nice stupid people All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. Vladimir Lenin long-ago personality hero The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them. Vladimir Lenin socialism isolation division In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism. Vladimir Lenin triumph funeral world It is not for nothing that Skaldin in one part of his book quotes Adam Smith: we have seen that both his views and the character of his arguments in many respects repeat the theses of that Vladimir Lenin views character book Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot. Vladimir Lenin cold-war nations revolutionary It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. Vladimir Lenin law insomnia time Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed. Vladimir Lenin territory development world The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy's cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this. Vladimir Lenin suicide class giving All contemporary religions and churches, all and every kind of religious organization, Marxism has always viewed as organs of bourgeois reaction, serving as a defense of exploitation and the doping of the working-classes. Vladimir Lenin organization religious class A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines Vladimir Lenin backwoods philistines country The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust the bourgeoisie. Vladimir Lenin bourgeoisie leader people The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy. Vladimir Lenin military blow war Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures had met the needs of the poor peasants, would there have been unrest among the peasant masses? Vladimir Lenin government wise needs