Vladimir Lenin

"The essence of Marxism is the concrete analysis of concrete conditions."

"A revolutionary must be ready to make any sacrifice for the cause."

"The worker must understand that his salvation lies in his own hands alone."

"History will absolve those who fought for the people."

"Bureaucracy is a sickness of every revolutionary organization."

"There is no school like adversity and no teacher like struggle."

"The purpose of the state is to maintain class domination by force."

"We will trade even with the devil himself if it serves the revolution."

"The individual is nothing; the movement is everything."

"A reformist is merely a revolutionary who has lost his nerve."

"The pen is mightier than the sword only when the sword does not strike first."

"Knowledge of the real conditions of labor is the first step toward liberation."

"Imperialism is capitalism in its highest stage of development."

"The revolution will not be beautiful; it will be harsh and necessary."

"A backward people cannot build a forward-looking state."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"Tolerance is a crime when applied to evil."

"The working class instinctively, and the socialist theorist consciously, understand necessity."

"Art belongs to the people, not to the palaces of the rich."

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, does not go away."

"One person with a gun can control one hundred without one."

"The war will change the course of history."

"To conquer the enemy one must have superior force at the point of decision."

"Peace is the natural state of mankind; war is the aberration."

"Nations are not destined to glory; they are built by the hands of workers."

"The question of land is fundamental to the revolution in Russia."

"Journalism is our weapon in the battle of ideas."

"The revolution must be permanent or it will perish."

"Self-criticism is the greatest tool of revolutionary progress."

"Spontaneity without organization is merely chaos."