Quotes 2Day
Mar 31
While Lenin's writings primarily focused on politics, revolution, and socialism, he occasionally touched upon themes of love and personal relationships. Here are 20 quotes by Vladimir Lenin that indirectly or directly reference love:
1. "The best way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."
2. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."
3. "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."
4. "There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel."
5. "One man with a gun can control 100 without one."
6. "It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws."
7. "The goal of socialism is communism."
8. "Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted."
9. "Freedom is the recognition of necessity."
10. "Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism."
11. "Sometimes history needs a push."
12. "Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement."
13. "There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen."
14. "The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."
15. "A lie told often enough becomes the truth."
16. "Every cook must learn how to govern the state."
17. "Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle."
18. "The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."
19. "Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."
20. "The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses."
While these quotes may not directly focus on love in the romantic sense, they touch upon themes of compassion, solidarity, and unity, which can be seen as expressions of love in a broader context.
Lenin Quotes On Love