- There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
- A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
- The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
- The goal of socialism is communism.
- Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
- Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
- A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.
- It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
- While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
- The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
10 Motivational Quotes by Vladimir Lenin
