Vladimir Lenin Quotes

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.

Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being.

Don't be deceived. There is no justice but strength.

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.

Move on over or we'll move on over you.

It [the treaty with Algeria] has been dictated at the mouths of our cannon..

The Authority has the power to turn everyone against me, and they have.

To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.

If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.

The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.

Physical violence is the basis of authority.