Vladimir Lenin Quotes

When we are reproached with having established a dictatorship of one party... we say, ‘Yes, it is a dictatorship of one party! This is what we stand for and we shall not shift from that position...

The term Party is applied equally to the peaceful parties of America and to the Communist Party of Russia, the Nazi Party of Germany, and the Fascist Party of Italy. The methodology of these parties varies, but their fundamental objective-to place and keep their leaders in control of the government - is the same.

All [political] parties, without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.

In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a "dictator" substitutes himself for the central committee.

My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian ruling style is characteristic of me.

In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party.

If the communist party is controlling China, they represent China.

The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.

The more entrenched a party in power becomes, the less likely it is to allow the kind of diversity in views that helped it achieve power in the first place.

From this day the presidency of Mexico ends. The dictatorship of Mexico begins.

We must mobilize all forces and suspend all political parties and organizations. I do not want to be a dictator, but if need be we can resort to that.

When the Communist Party has made up its mind on any subject, it is so certain of being able to carry its point that the calling together of the All-Russian Executive Committee is merely a theatrical demonstration of the fact that it can do what it likes. When it does meet, the Communists allow the microscopical opposition great liberty of speech, listen quietly, cheer ironically, and vote like one man, proving on every occasion that the meeting of the Executive Committee was the idlest of forms, intended rather to satisfy purists than for purposes of discussion, since the real discussion has all taken place beforehand among the Communists themselves. Something like this must happen with every representative assembly at which a single party has a great preponderance and a rigid internal discipline

There is no room for communists in Kenya.

As long as the [Communist] Party remains the ultimate source of wealth and power, its ability to police itself will determine China’s fate.

With the suppression of all political parties, the bases were laid for the totalitarian state.

Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.

I am the first authoritarian government elected to become a dictator and then resigning as a dictator. So this is the first dictator in the world who has resigned while still quite healthy.

The media believes that what Obama was gonna do when he took over, go dictator immediately, that was what this country needs, finally central government running everything.

I am in favour of a dictatorship.

The line between fascism and Fabian socialism is very thin. Fabian socialism is the dream. Fascism is Fabian socialism plus the inevitable dictator.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central Committee under the control of Soviet forces.

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.