Vladimir Lenin

We shall build a new world. We have the right to be proud of it.

The vanguard of the working class is the Communist Party.

The more conscious the people are, the more clearly they see that the old order must be destroyed.

We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and to improve their welfare, and not to enable a few to get rich at the expense of tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people. This new and better society is called socialist society.

All power to the Soviets!

We shall conquer the world.

The more we learn, the more we see that the old order must be destroyed.

We will turn Russia upside down.

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.

The bourgeoisie has no right to demand that we should not use terror.

The most important thing is to make sure that the people don't know what we're doing.

We shall pursue our course, and we shall win.

Truth is a bourgeois prejudice.

The development of capitalism proceeds unevenly in different countries. It cannot be otherwise under commodity production. From this, it follows that socialism cannot achieve victory simultaneously in all countries. It will achieve victory first in one or several countries, while the others will remain bourgeois or pre-bourgeois for some time.

The proletariat has no country.

Either the revolution will be victorious, or it will be crushed. There is no middle course.

The entire history of revolutions shows that they are always accompanied by the most ruthless and bloody civil wars.

We need to go for the throat.

The working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purposes.