Vladimir Lenin Quotes

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development.

We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

Grasp Revolution

Radicals don't care about the institutions. They are looking for an ideological crusade. Traditions don't matter.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

Every revolutionary movement ... proposes the greatest number of achievements possible.

A revolutionary is not the revolution.

If there is to be a revolution, there must be a revolutionary party.

Of all the things we have done, the most important - the one that history will record as the principal contribution of our generation - is that we understand how to turn the armed struggle into a Revolution; that we realized that it was essential to create a new mentality to build a new society.

I think that in order to make revolution, you need to make reforms, but you should make these reforms with revolution in mind.

I've always said - I've always said I'm not, by temperament, a romantic about revolutions or given to revolutions. I've always thought that they are not the ideal way to change.

You should not do this, Comrade. We are only in the introductory stage yet, here in Western Europe. And in that stage it is better to encourage the fighters than the rulers.

The revolution doesn't always look perfect.

Look, if the Situationists achieved what they wanted, they would be very unhappy and they would have to be Situationists all over again. It's a never-ending process.

I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.

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

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

Those who are inclined to compromise can never make a revolution.

We now have a literary movement. it is not very important; it will be followed by a political movement, that will not be very important; then must come a military movement, that will be important indeed

Revolutionaries are not infallible.

It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action.

I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.