Quotes By Vladimir Lenin

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

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

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

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

Sometimes - history needs a push.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.