Vladimir Lenin Quotes About Revolution

Quotes about: Revolution

• One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Independent, Numbers, People

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

  Vladimir Lenin

  Reality, Revolution, Impossible

• It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Time, Insomnia, Law

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

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom, Tyrants, Slave Owners

• I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Russia, World, Care

  "Communists: The Battle over the Tomb". The Time, content.time.com. April 24, 1964.

• It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives. It is far more difficult--and far more precious--to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Struggle, People, Broken

• Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Flare Up, Revolution, Brewing

• How can you make a revolution without executions?

  Vladimir Lenin

  Revolution, Execution

• 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.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Time, Freedom Of Speech, Revolution

• When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom Of Speech, Revolution, Mark

• We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon incomprehension of the tasks of the proletarian dictatorship, are totally alien to Marxism, and, as a matter of fact, serve only to postpone the socialist revolution until people are different. No, we want the socialist revolution with people as they are now, with people who cannot dispense with subordination, control, and "foremen and accountants".

  Vladimir Lenin

  Dream, People, Different

• By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and should be a progressive factor not only economically. It will force the peasant to reflect on the bases of the capitalist system, demolish faith in the tsar and tsarism, and consequently in due course make the victory of the revolution easier... Psychologically all this talk about feeding the starving and so on essentially reflects the usual sugary sentimentality of our intelligentsia.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Country, Victory, Towns

• Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  October Revolution, Personality, Influential

• We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Country, Real, Needs

• You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

  Vladimir Lenin

  White, Gloves, Revolution

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

  Vladimir Lenin

  Writing, Revolution, Pleasant

• The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Revolution, Impossible, Violent

• No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Revolution

  "Report at a Joint Session of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, The Moscow Soviet, Factory Committees and Trade Unions". Pravda No. 229, October 23, 1918. Collected Works, Volume 28, pp. 113 - 126, www.marxists.org.

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