Russian Quotes

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

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.

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.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Crime is a product of social excess.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

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

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

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

Any cook should be able to run the country.

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

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

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

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

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

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

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

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

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.

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.

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

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

The goal of socialism is communism.

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

You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year.

There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.

In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years.

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.