Quotes by Vladimir Lenin

“Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.”

“A lie told often enough becomes truth”

“One man with a gun can control 100 without one. ”

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”

“If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.”

“Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.”

“Crime is a product of social excess”

“It is true that liberty is precious - so precious that it must be rationed”

“The goal of socialism is communism.”

“Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever”

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

“Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism”

“We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory”

“No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses”

“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”

“Sometimes--history needs a push.”

“When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.”

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.