Vladimir Lenin

There are no morals in politics; the is only experience. A scoundrel may be of use because he is a scoundrel!

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

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.

Every society is three meals away from chaos.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the ‘experience of the revolution’ than to write about it.

And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?

Like most technology, the internet has mixed effects. It’s a neutral instrument.

Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words of Luther, Russia might say: ‘Here I stand on the frontier between the old, capitalist world and the new, socialist world. Here on this frontier I unite the efforts of the proletarians of the West and of the peasantry of the East in order to shatter the old world. May the god of history be my aid!

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state’s role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.

I think it’s fine when the mayor of the biggest city in Russia consults the president.

And [Saudi Arabia] is strongly backed by the United States and its allies, Britain and France. Reason? It’s got a lot of oil. It’s got a lot of money. You can sell them a lot of arms, I think tens of billions of dollars of arms.

There used to be the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. There used to be Soviet troops in the GDR. And we must honestly admit that they were occupation troops, which remained in Germany after WWII under the guise of allied troops. Now these occupation troops are gone, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and the Warsaw Pact is no more. There is no Soviet threat, but NATO and U.S. troops are still in Europe. What for?

The government appears to be waiting for instructions from President Donald Trump on how to proceed, britain should press for an independent U.N.-led investigation of last weekend’s horrific chemical weapons attack so that those responsible can be held to account.

By the autumn of this year, additional measures should be introduced which will stabilize the situation on the market.

It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority… averts all dangers from my path… if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life.

One day we took each other by the hand and went for a walk in the evening. And we walked like that for our whole life.

My English is very bad.

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

There will come a day, I promise you, when the thought of your son, or daughter, or your wife or your husband, brings a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eye. It will happen. My prayer for you is that day will come sooner than later.

I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don’t see much of a distinction beyond that.