Vladimir Lenin

The goal of socialism is communism.

Pravda is a terrible word. It is a good word, but it is a terrible word. It means truth. And there is no truth.

The sound of music does not stir me. It acts on my nerves as an irritant. I am unable to listen to music.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

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

The more we shoot, the better.

We consider it our duty to suppress the resistance of the exploiters by force.

The State is a machine for maintaining the domination of one class over another.

Democracy is a state which recognizes the subordination of the minority to the majority, i.e., an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one section of the population against another.

The more powerful the resistance of the exploiting classes, the more ruthless, the more merciless, the more uncompromising must be the struggle.

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

Control over bread is control over everything.

We need to go to the countryside, to the villages, to the peasants. We must explain to them that the Soviet government is the only government that frees them from exploitation.

The rich and the rogues are two sides of the same coin, they are the two principal categories of parasites whom the Soviet government must most persistently combat.

We shall be victorious because we are right.

Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism.

The transition from capitalism to communism will certainly create a great variety of political forms, but their essence will inevitably be the same: the dictatorship of the proletariat.

War is a crime, but it is a necessary crime.

Trust is good, control is better.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.