Vladimir Lenin

The goal of Socialism is Communism.

In the history of modern socialism this is a phenomenon, that the strife of the various trends within the socialist movement has from national become international.

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

Thus, the twentieth century marks the turning-point from the old capitalism to the new, from the domination of capital in general to the domination of finance capital.

Sometimes – history needs a push.

Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, ‘What kind of peace?’

I think one can give a good argument that looting isn’t violence at all. In a sense, most of us are looters, or at any rate we are benefiting from others’ looting.

We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.

Some of the most moving experiences I’ve had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

For many years, election campaigns here have been run by the public relations industry and each time it’s with increasing sophistication. Quite naturally, the industry uses the same technique to sell candidates that it uses to sell toothpaste or lifestyle drugs.

Socialism means keeping account of everything. You will have socialism if you take stock of every piece of iron and cloth.

We can win an awful lot of people into the political spectrum, by offering something that is … radical.

Under Obama, the [Democratic] party was reduced to shambles at the local and state level, a particularly serious matter because the 2020 elections will determine redistricting, offering opportunities for gerrymandering even beyond today’s scandalous situation.

You cannot put Russia down on its knees and hold it there because Russia will ultimately pull out.

The New York Times, reported in 2009, that the Obama administration had made a secret deal with the pharmaceutical industry in which it promised not to allow the government to use its purchasing power to negotiate drug prices, as is done in every other country…

Advance towards socialism cannot but cause the exploiting elements to resist the advance, and the resistance of the exploiters cannot but lead to the inevitable sharpening of the class struggle.

That government is best which governs least.

This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism

The whole world recognizes Russia’s cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and literature.