Vladimir Lenin

The electrification of the whole country is the only way to overcome the backwardness of Russia.

Every cook must learn to govern the state.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

The dictatorship of the proletariat is a persistent struggle—bloody and bloodless, violent and peaceful, military and economic, educational and administrative—against the forces and traditions of the old society.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

The State is an organ of domination of one class over another.

We shall be merciless with both our enemies and our allies.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Without a revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

The more powerful the bourgeoisie, the more it suppresses the proletariat.

We must be able to withstand everything, to agree to any sacrifice, and even — if need be — to resort to all sorts of strategems, manoeuvres, and illegal methods, to evasions and subterfuges, in order to get into the trade unions, to remain in them, and to carry on Communist work in them at all costs.

The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the morale of the enemy declines.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience.

The 'dictatorship of the proletariat,' to use Marx's term, is the only possible form of transition from capitalism to communism.

The press is a weapon.

We must learn to approach the masses with the greatest patience and caution, to overcome the prejudices of the masses and replace them with conscious class consciousness.

There is no 'democracy' in the abstract, there is only class democracy.

The development of capitalism proceeds at an uneven pace in different countries.