Vladimir Lenin Quotes

War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some powerful group over the whims of some other powerful group. The dead are just the sparks that fly from the metal as they grind it down.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Violence always leads to more violence…. To the conqueror comes a conqueror.

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?

If love exists between two persons, it is blessed. If love does not exist between two persons, then all your laws put together cannot bridge them. Then they exist separate, then they exist apart, then they exist in conflict, then they exist always in war. And they create all kinds of trouble for each other. They are nasty to each other, nagging to each other, possessive of each other, violent, oppressive, dominating, dictatorial.

War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither can the evil of men's thoughts be driven out by blows. If I go to my neighbor's house, and break her furniture, and smash her pictures, and bind her children captive, it does not prove that I am fitter to live than she - yet according to ethics of nations it does. I have conquered her and she must pay me for my trouble; and her house and all that is left in it belongs to my heirs and successors, forever. That is war!

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.

Force, punishment, and violence are patriarchy's answer to conflicts and social problems. Patriarchy finds its ultimate expression in war.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

The most dreaded of all wars, the war of the poor against the rich … will come and come with all its horrors.