Vladimir Lenin Quotes

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

When you look at the times in history when change was brought about, there were two factors: crisis and leadership.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.

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

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

Social change comes through people.

Only through perils and upheavals can Nations be brought to further developments. May the present upheavals lead to a better world.

History pays more attention to reformers than others. We pay more attention to dissenters too.

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

The reformer does not want to move left; he wants to move forward.

In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than revolutions "for"... On the whole throughout this period the man--or party--that stood for doing the positive has usually cut a pathetic figure; well meaning but ineffectual, civilized but unrealistic, he was suspect alike to (by both) the ultras of destruction and the ultras of preservation and restoration.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

Heroism means going out of bounds. In this world things must go out of bounds from time to time... No one can desire that the world continue to muddle along in every respect in the groove into which imperfect laws and even more imperfect behavior have pushed it. Without heroic intervention no Council of Nicaea, no dethronement of the Merovingians, no conquest of England, no Reformation, no revolt of the Netherlands, no free America. The thing that counts is who intervenes, how and in the name of what.

Revolutions never go backward.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

Revolution begins with one step