Vladimir Lenin Quotes

A little rebellion is a good thing.

I think, you're not blagging me on this ridiculous journey, with this bit of paper. I think if you want to change things, it's not with an X on a piece of paper, it's with an X on someone's forehead.

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.

The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on!

It is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

That is what is happening with the Tea Parties. I wrote a column called "The Second American Revolution" about the fact that people are acting for themselves as it happened with the Sons of Liberty which spread throughout the colonies. That was a very important awakening in this country.

I resolved that no revolutionary movement was going to be brought into being in the USA unless I brought it into being.

That force - which the system tried to laugh at - when it finally broke through and the movement was recognized, the media said they were "just a bunch of spoiled kids, dope smokers [who] don't know what the hell they want." To demean it as something laughable - but that didn't work for very long. It's still an ongoing struggle; they're trying to find out how to fight. It's very exciting times.

We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are sons and daughters of the farm workers' revolution, a revolution of the poor seeking bread and justice.

I would start a revolution, but I just bought a hammock.

To make the revolution in the United States is a slow day by day job that requires patience and discipline. It is the only way to make it. . . . All I know is that despite the fact that I am one of the people who benefit from a capitalist society, I find that any system which exploits other people cannot and should not exist.

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

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

We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.

And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

This is where the rebellion was begun, and by God, this is where it will end.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

“Order prevails in Berlin!” You foolish lackeys! Your “order” is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will “rise up again, clashing its weapons,” and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!