Lenin Violence Quotes

We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these. ~ Vladimir Lenin

An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action. ~ Vladimir Lenin

The whole notion of exemplary violence seemed to fire Lenin's imagination. On August 11, 1918 he wrote a letter to Bolshevik leaders in Penza that speaks volumes: Comrades! The kulak uprising must be crushed without pity ... An example must be made. 1) Hang (and I mean hang so that the people can see) not less than 100 known bloodsuckers. 2) Publish their names. 3) Take all their grain away from them ... Do this so that for hundreds of miles around the people can see, tremble, know and cry: they are killing and will go on killing the bloodsucking kulaks ... P.S. Find tougher people. ~ Niall Ferguson

A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by the use of violence by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws. ~ Vladimir Lenin

No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always spoken of agreement with them and of
their gradual and voluntary transition to socialism. ~ Vladimir Lenin

We must not depict socialism as if socialists will bring it to us on a plate all nicely dressed. That will never happen. Not a single problem of the class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence. When violence is exercised by the working people, by the mass of exploited against the exploiters
then we are for it! ~ Vladimir Lenin

No artist has painted
A true portrait of Lenin
Ages to come will complete
Lenin's unfinished portrait.
Did Poletaev understand the tragic implication of his lines about Lenin? (pg179) ~ Vasily Grossman

Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless. ~ Vladimir Lenin

It was not Marxism that made Lenin a revolutionary but Lenin who made Marxism revolutionary. ~ Orlando Figes

Every cook must learn to rule the State. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Every society is three meals away from chaos ~ Vladimir Lenin

Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism. ~ Vladimir Lenin

The goal of Socialism is Communism. ~ Vladimir Lenin

If you live on a farm, there is definite peer pressure to grow something. ~ Janaki Lenin

One quick way to destroy a society is through its music. ~ Vladimir Lenin

One must always strive to be as radical as reality itself. ~ Vladimir Lenin

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Learning is never done without errors and defeat. ~ Vladimir Lenin

It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror. ~ Vladimir Lenin

One cannot live in society and be free from society. ~ Vladimir Lenin

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none. ~ Pyotr Kropotkin

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. ~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State. Lenin, "State and Revolution", ~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions? ~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay ~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

He loved her with the fire of a thousand suns, she was his solace in the chaos, his redemption. ~ Lenin

Destroy the family and you destroy society ~ Vladimir Lenin

The revolution does not need historians. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Trust is good, but control is better. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards. ~ Vladimir Lenin

The bourgeoisie are today evading taxation by bribery and through their connections; we must close all loopholes. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Man's consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. ~ Vladimir Lenin

All countries will inevitably have to do what Russia has done. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Exchange, fair or unfair,always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie. ~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Sometimes - history needs a push. ~ Vladimir Lenin

One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite. ~ Vladimir Lenin

War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished. ~ Vladimir Lenin

To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin. ~ Vladimir Lenin

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics. ~ Vladimir Lenin

It is necessary sometimes to take one step backward to take two steps forward. ~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty. ~ Vladimir Lenin

We are not shooting enough professors ~ Vladimir Lenin

To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong. ~ Vladimir Lenin

The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart. ~ Vladimir Lenin

The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves. ~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Logic is the science not of external forms of thought, but of the laws of development "of all material, natural and spiritual things", i.e., of the development of the entire concrete content of the world and of its cognition, i.e., the sum-total, the conclusion of the History of knowledge of the world. ~ Vladimir Lenin

At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators. ~ Vladimir Lenin

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price. ~ Vladimir Lenin

It is in prison ... that one becomes a real revolutionary. ~ Vladimir Lenin

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses. ~ Vladimir Lenin

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. ~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population defenseless. ~ Vladimir Lenin

For any truth, if overdone ... if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation. ~ Vladimir Lenin

A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines ~ Vladimir Lenin

Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism. ~ Vladimir Lenin

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves. ~ Vladimir Lenin

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it. ~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing. ~ Vladimir Lenin

I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution. ~ Vladimir Lenin

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

In the history of modern socialism this is a phenomenon, that the strife of the various trends within the socialist movement has from national become international. ~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration? ~ Vladimir Lenin

Socialism means keeping account of everything. You will have socialism if you take stock of every piece of iron and cloth. ~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. ~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. ~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. ~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

If you try to fix violence with violence, you do NOTHING but create violence. ~ Tom DeLonge

One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward. ~ Orlando Figes

Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror. ~ Vladimir Lenin

For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power. ~ Garet Garrett

Violence cannot remove violence ... Violence breeds more violence and hate. ~ Jeffrey A. White

Act with the greatest determination and on the offensive. The defensive is the death of every armed rising. ~ Vladimir Lenin

It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain. ~ Vladimir Lenin

A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie. ~ Vladimir Lenin

It is stupid to tolerate Nikola; all Chekists have to be on alert to shoot anyone who doesn't turn up to work because of Nikola. ~ Vladimir Lenin

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Stalin's hatred for the Old Bolsheviks who opposed him was also a hatred for those aspects of Lenin's character that contradicted what was most essential in Lenin. ~ Vasily Grossman

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich
that is the democracy of capitalist society. ~ Vladimir Lenin

I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid nice things and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell. ~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

One man with a gun can control a hundred without one. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state. ~ Vladimir Lenin

This transformation of competition into monopoly is one of the most important - if not the most important - phenomena of modern capitalist economy, ~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Destroy the family, you destroy the country. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Violence is violence and can in no way be misconstrued as discipline under any circumstance cultural or otherwise. ~ Aysha Taryam

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction. ~ Vladimir 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 Lenin