Vladimir Lenin Quotes

I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.

What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism.

Only force would produce social change.

Power Concedes Nothing

The Socialist movement is the abolitionist movement of the 20th century.

I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutionists around the corner.

Sometimes you must live in a violent world in order to get greater justice.

It's much harder to bring about socialism through legal means, because there are so many possibilities for opposition.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

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

I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism.

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

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.

I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.

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

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