Vladimir Lenin Quotes

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. Drive them full speed ahead and keep them on the rails... .

We now have a literary movement. it is not very important; it will be followed by a political movement, that will not be very important; then must come a military movement, that will be important indeed

Destiny and history are untidy.

Of all the things we have done, the most important - the one that history will record as the principal contribution of our generation - is that we understand how to turn the armed struggle into a Revolution; that we realized that it was essential to create a new mentality to build a new society.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

The revolution doesn't always look perfect.

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business.

We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it.

All revolutions are violent revolutions.

Americans have always been amongst the most revolutionary people of the world.

Every revolutionary movement ... proposes the greatest number of achievements possible.