Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, [Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov] (1870-1924) First Leader of the Soviet Union Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-26] of 26 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin quotesVladimir Ilyich Lenin QuotesVladimir Ilyich Lenin No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into small states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin The surest way to destroy a nation is to debauch its currency.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin We do not have time to play at “oppositions” at “conferences.” We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as “nonparty,” in prison.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Destroy the family, you destroy the country.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ...the concentration of capital and the growth of their turnover is radically challenging the significance of the banks. Scattered capitalists are transformed into a single collective capitalist. When carrying the current accounts of a few capitalists, the banks, as it were, transact a purely technical and exclusively auxiliary operation. When, however, these operations grow to enormous dimensions we find that a handful of monopolists control all the operations, both commercial and industrial, of capitalist society. They can, by means of their banking connections.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin I don’t care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 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 Ilyich Lenin We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 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 Ilyich Lenin Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Socialized medicine is the keystone to the arch of the socialist state.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers (Communist) and the disarming of the bourgeoisie (the middle class).~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ...first ascertain exactly the position of the various capitalists, then control them, influence them by restricting or enlarging, facilitating or hindering their credits, and finally they can entirely determine their fate.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Ideological talk and phrase mongering about political liberties should be disposed with; all that is just mere chatter and phrase mongering. We should get away from those phrases.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Hundreds of thousands of rouble notes are being issued daily by our treasury. This is done, not in order to fill the coffers of the State with practically worthless paper, but with the deliberate intention of destroying the value of money as a means of payment. ... Experience has taught us it is impossible to root out the evils of capitalism merely by confiscation and expropriation… The simplest way to exterminate the very spirit of capitalism is therefore to flood the country with notes of a high face-value without financial guarantees of any sort. …[T]he great illusion of the value and power of money, on which the capitalist state is based will have been definitely destroyed.~ Vladimir Ilyich 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 Ilyich Lenin Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin They will furnish credits which will serve us for the support of the Communist Party in their countries and, by supplying us materials and technical equipment which we lack, will restore our military industry necessary for our future attacks against our suppliers. To put it in other words, they will work on the preparation of their own suicide.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print