Vladimir Lenin Quotes

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

Is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?

To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.

I say we don't need art in nature, because it's so perfect without us. We need it in the cities. But the cities have absolutely lost their own center. They think having ten cars and a big bridge is the way to happiness. It's not.

I don't think anyone has ever really been able to marry tech, fashion, and this concept that sustainable material, up-cycled material can be luxurious. And nothing is more luxurious than gold, right? Gold is luxurious because it's gold, post-consumer or virgin. Whatever it is, it's just gold.

Conservatives recognize there's gonna be winners and losers. The communists say that's not right. There shouldn't be any losers, and they set about trying to create circumstances where people think nobody will lose. But everybody loses under communism. They eventually have to build walls around countries to keep people in, as in the Berlin Wall.

My first goal would be to reduce the perturbation in the carbon cycle. That would mean using carbon neutral sources of energy, and changing our agricultural practices to be less disruptive and polluting. I'm not talking about a policy here so much as changing the way our infrastructure works. That's why I'm so fascinated with changing the way we build cities, because they are the most developed forms of physical infrastructure for human habitation.

In their day, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin represented the aspirations and demands of the exploited working masses, and the cause of socialism was inseparably linked with their names.

In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.

Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.

I am proud that I have devoted all my life to the struggle for the triumph of Leninism.

I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me.

I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did.

By Revolution, we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars.

Having consolidated its power, and taking the lead of the peasantry, the proletariat of the victorious country can and must build a socialist society.

Somehow I think that if Toronto had been forced to wait a decade [from 80th], it would be a better looking city.

Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

To the newcomer who has not learned its language, a large city is a chaos of details, a vast Woolworths store of differently colored, simlarly priced objects.

Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.

I always get what I want in the end. And I think I want...ornamental ironwork. For the windows of my bedchamber.

I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money.

I told Clooney, George, you’re worth $100 million — of course you can afford to be a socialist!