Lenin Quotes On Revolution

20 quotes by Vladimir Lenin on revolution:

1. "The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."

2. "Sometimes history needs a push."

3. "Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement."

4. "There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen."

5. "The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."

6. "A lie told often enough becomes the truth."

7. "Every cook must learn how to govern the state."

8. "Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle."

9. "The goal of socialism is communism."

10. "To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics."

11. "Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."

12. "Freedom is the recognition of necessity."

13. "Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism."

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

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

16. "The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency."

17. "One man with a gun can control 100 without one."

18. "It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws."

19. "There is no force in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood."

20. "The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."

Lenin Quotes On Revolution