Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, alias Lenin, was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of the Russian Republic from 1917 to 1918, of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1918 to 1924, and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, his political theories are known as Leninism...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionLeader
Date of Birth22 April 1870
CountryRussian Federation
One quick way to destroy a society is through its music.
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
But I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.
The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.