Vladimir Lenin
Bolshevik leader whose writings adapted Marxism to revolutionary practice.
Quotes by Vladimir Lenin
Without big tasks, without a big struggle, human life becomes empty.
The great social problems will be solved only by the working class.
All official institutions of culture are masks of the proletariat.
The task of the proletarian party is to lead the masses to socialism.
Capitalism has grown into a world system of colonial oppression.
The essence of the bourgeois state is the armed force.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
The workers must be armed and organized.
Socialism is the abolition of the bourgeois state.
The intelligentsia are the servants of the bourgeoisie.
Peace is the continuation of war by other means.
The end justifies the means.
In the last analysis, the essence of leadership is the ability to organize.
The strength of the working class is organization.
Without democracy, there is no socialism.
The revolution consists in the oppressed class becoming the ruling class.
Goodness will not save us, but organization will.
I am not a Liberal, not a Conservative, not a Prohibitionist, not a Democrat, not a Republican. I am an Anarchist.
The last words of Lenin were: 'Comrades, the workers of all countries, unite!'