Vladimir Lenin

"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen."

"The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting information but to serve as a programmatic expression of the interests of the ruling class."

"One man with a gun can control 100 without one."

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

"A lie told often enough becomes the truth."

"Freedom is so precious that it must be rationed."

"The state is a machine in the hands of the ruling class for suppressing the resistance of its class enemies."

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

"Fascism is capitalism in decay."

"Give me just one generation of youth, and I will transform the whole world."

"The socialist revolution will not be brought about by those who profit from the existing system."

"Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the entire country."

"The best way to control opposition is to lead it ourselves."

"History shows that there are no invincible armies."

"Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism."

"In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance."

"Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism."

"The press is the collective organizer, educator, and agitator of the working class."

"A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation."

"Politics begins where the masses are; not where there are thousands, but where there are millions."

"The goal of socialism is communism."

"Strike while the iron is hot."

"Without a revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement."

"The fundamental law of revolution is the following: the whole mass of the old institutions and relations must be not reformed but destroyed."

"Every intellectual becomes a bourgeois the moment he stops struggling."

"The degree of civilization is measured by the degree to which woman is civilized."

"Better fewer, but better."

"Ideas are more powerful than guns."

"Theoretical knowledge is incomplete without practical action."

"One cannot be a revolutionary and believe in God."