You need to hang … at least 100 notorious kulaks, the rich, and the bloodsuckers … This needs to be accomplished in such a way that people for hundreds of miles around will see, tremble, know and scream out : let's choke and strangle those blood-sucking kulaks.

Vladimir Lenin

Categorized in : U.S.

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

Vladimir Lenin

hate language writing

Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.

Vladimir Lenin

generations giving world

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

Vladimir Lenin

mass should interesting

Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?

Vladimir Lenin

gun men believe

We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society.

Vladimir Lenin

machines order people

The goal of socialism is communism.

Vladimir Lenin

socialism historical goal

As an ultimate objective, "peace" simply means communist world control.

Vladimir Lenin

war mean world

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

Vladimir Lenin

atheism political justice

Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.

Vladimir Lenin

education giving years

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

Vladimir Lenin

stress keys success

It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.

Vladimir Lenin

howl abuse easier

How can you make a revolution without executions?

Vladimir Lenin

execution revolution

You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.

Vladimir Lenin

ice fire heart

There can be nothing more abominable than religion.

Vladimir Lenin

religious christian

You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.

Vladimir Lenin

arms gun men

The only one who doesn't make mistakes is the one who doesn't do anything.

Vladimir Lenin

rejection mistake writing

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

Vladimir Lenin

freedom stupid self

It is not national interests we are upholding - we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank higher than national interests, higher than the interests of the state. We are defenders of the socialist fatherland.

Vladimir Lenin

socialism states world

America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism.

Vladimir Lenin

luxury country lying

Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

Vladimir Lenin

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