Vladimir Lenin Quotes

“This lack of faith in authority even extended to his belief in the most supreme authority of all, as Lenin renounced his belief in God in dramatic fashion.”
― Hourly History, Vladimir Lenin: A Life from Beginning to End

“His visions were quite grandiose, and he cracked more than a few eggs while attempting to make his utopian omelet.”
― Hourly History, Vladimir Lenin: A Life from Beginning to End

“Unlike Stalin, Lenin never made an attempt to seize ultimate power for himself, although he easily could have. During the crackdowns of the Red Terror, for example, Lenin could have easily completed a Stalinesque purge, but as brutal as the Red Terror was, Lenin showed much more restraint than his successor. He never wanted to be the supreme dictator of Russia because, for him, his movement was far greater than what encompassed the Russian borders.”
― Hourly History, Vladimir Lenin: A Life from Beginning to End

“Yet even though Lenin had shirked the mantle of an all-powerful statesman in life, he is seen as the most important founder of this major epoch in Russian history after his death. Indeed, the very same man who signed his name as “V. Lenin” because he wished to remain anonymous became one of the major icons of not only Russian history in the early twentieth century but world history as a whole.”
― Hourly History, Vladimir Lenin: A Life from Beginning to End

“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
― Hourly History, Vladimir Lenin: A Life from Beginning to End

“While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.”
― Hourly History, Vladimir Lenin: A Life from Beginning to End

“A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.”
― Hourly History, Vladimir Lenin: A Life from Beginning to End

“There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.”
― Hourly History, Vladimir Lenin: A Life from Beginning to End

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
― Hourly History, Vladimir Lenin: A Life from Beginning to End