Lenin: "Sometimes - history needs a push."

Lenin: "Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin."

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

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

Lenin: "Crime is a product of social excess."

Lenin: "If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years."

Lenin: "No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses."

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

Lenin: "There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel."

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

Lenin: "If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism."

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

Lenin: "Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."

Lenin: "Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes."

Lenin: "When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state."

Lenin: "The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death."

Lenin: "A lie told often enough becomes the truth."

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

Lenin: "When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism."

Lenin: "The goal of socialism is communism."

Lenin: "It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed."

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

Lenin: "The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness."