Vladimir Lenin

Revolutionary, Communist Leader Russian 1870 – 1924

Led the Russian Revolution and founded the Soviet Union.

397 quotes

"The wealth of a country is its people."
Success
"An army of workers would be invincible."
Strength
"Material relationships are the foundation of spiritual and political ones."
Philosophy
"Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."
Politics
"The proletariat needs the revolution and socialist reconstruction."
Change
"The press in the Soviet Union is free because it is freed from the fetters of capitalism."
Freedom
"Communism is incompatible with Christianity."
Faith
"No amount of political freedom will satisfy a hungry people."
Freedom
"The party is the vanguard of the working class."
Leadership
"To rely on Lenin is to rely on the revolution itself."
Hope
"The Soviet system is the dictatorship of the proletariat."
Politics
"Economic relations determine social and political institutions."
History
"The masses are the makers of history."
History
"Knowledge of the world only comes from the scientific study of society."
Knowledge
"Religion is the opium of the people."
Faith
"The consciousness of the masses is formed through their experience."
Education
"Violence is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one."
Change
"All power flows from the barrel of a gun."
Power
"The individual is temporary, but society is eternal."
Solitude
"Progress is impossible without radical change."
Change
"Art belongs to the people."
Art
"The task of organization is to learn to use history properly."
Leadership
"Leftism is a disease of the mind."
Philosophy
"We believe that once the masses learn about the system, they will make the right choice."
Education
"Everything that can be said has already been said before the Soviet revolution."
History
"A revolution without culture is not a real revolution."
Creativity
"Discipline is the foundation of every powerful army."
Strength
"Comrades, we must build a new civilization based on socialist principles."
Motivation
"The worker has no country. We cannot take from him what he has not got."
Politics
"The most important thing is that we must act decisively and without hesitation."
Courage