Vladimir Lenin Quotes

A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

“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!

The revolution can only defend itself by attacking.

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

All revolutions are violent revolutions.

We can neither export revolution nor can the United States prevent it.

Comrades, the revolution is on.

If a revolution is to succeed, sometimes you must kill.

When citizens have no political way to deal with revolution, they become counter-revolutionary.

A revolution cannot survive without an enemy in front of it..

Grasp Revolution

For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was a popular uprising, not a euphemism for a coup.

The revolution doesn't always look perfect.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.

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

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

The word Revolution, which we Socialists are so often forced to use, has a terrible sound in most people's ears, even when we have explained to them that it does not necessarily mean a change accompanied by riot and all kinds of violence

In the modern world, it is not the poor and the oppressed who have led the great revolutions and/or carried out the worst deeds of violence; rather, it is militant vanguards from among the better educated and more moneyed circles of society.

Patriots have been incapable of removing one brick from this structure by “working within the system.” … There are two paths open to those who love the great America of their forefathers.

Make the revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

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

Revolutions do not always establish freedom.

If there is one safe generalization in human affairs, it is that revolutions always destroy themselves.

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.