Vladimir Lenin

Political Philosophy Russia 1870 – 1924 99 quotes

Bolshevik leader whose writings adapted Marxism to revolutionary practice.

Quotes by Vladimir Lenin

Without big tasks, without a big struggle, human life becomes empty.

Article 1919

The great social problems will be solved only by the working class.

Book 1917

All official institutions of culture are masks of the proletariat.

Speech 1919

The task of the proletarian party is to lead the masses to socialism.

Book 1902

Capitalism has grown into a world system of colonial oppression.

Book 1916

The essence of the bourgeois state is the armed force.

Book 1917

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Speech 1917

The workers must be armed and organized.

Speech 1917

Socialism is the abolition of the bourgeois state.

Book 1917

The intelligentsia are the servants of the bourgeoisie.

Article 1905

Peace is the continuation of war by other means.

Speech 1918

The end justifies the means.

Book 1902

In the last analysis, the essence of leadership is the ability to organize.

Speech 1920

The strength of the working class is organization.

Book 1902

Without democracy, there is no socialism.

Book 1917

The revolution consists in the oppressed class becoming the ruling class.

Speech 1917

Goodness will not save us, but organization will.

Speech 1919

I am not a Liberal, not a Conservative, not a Prohibitionist, not a Democrat, not a Republican. I am an Anarchist.

Interview

The last words of Lenin were: 'Comrades, the workers of all countries, unite!'

Deathbed 1924