Vladimir Lenin Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom, Stupid, Self

• We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not "in the name of capitalism," but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Names, Democracy, Movement

• A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Class, Organization, Democracy

  State and Revolution (1919) ch. 4

• Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Honesty, Freedom, Hypocrisy

• Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Political, Democracy, Want

  "Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution". "Collected Works", 9, Marxists, (p. 29), 1905.

• Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Historical, Democracy, Liberty

• Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Democracy, Minorities, Rich

  "Collected Works" by Vladimir Lenin, vol. 25, 1993.

• Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but, on the other hand, it signifies the formal recognition of equality of citizens, the equal right of all to determine the structure of, and to administer, the state.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Hands, Democracy, Citizens

• But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Communication, Mean, Democracy

• To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary- constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Crush, Real, Years

  Vladimir Lenin (2017). “The State And Revolution (Annotated)”, p.55, Lulu Press, Inc

• Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom, Expression, Democracy

• Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Democracy, Movement, Revolutionary

  Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (2012). “Essential Works of Lenin: "What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings”, p.69, Courier Corporation

• Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Attitude, Freedom, Democracy

• False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom, Political, Democracy

• Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Promise, Democracy, Phrases

• Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything, can form an opinion of everything, and do everything consciously.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Strong, Freedom, Ideas

• Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom, Democracy, Done

• All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom, Democracy, May

• In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority.

  Vladimir Lenin

  People, Democracy, Minorities

  "The State and Revolution". Book by Vladimir Lenin, 1917.

• If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration?

  Vladimir Lenin

  Mean, Essence, Class

  Vladimir Il'ich Lenin (1975). “Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh”

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