10 Iconic Quotes from Vladimir Lenin to Reflect

     Vladimir Lenin Quotes on Education and Politics: Lenin's 10 Most Impactful and Inspiring Phrases. Messages, Quotes, Excerpts and Motivational Phrases!

Who Was Vladimir Lenin?

     Vladimir Ilyich Ulianov, better known as Lenin (Simbirsk, April 22, 1870 - Gorki, January 21, 1924), was a communist revolutionary, politician and Russian political theorist who served as head of government for Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death. Under his administration, Russia and then the Soviet Union became a one-party socialist state ruled by the Communist Party (CPSU). Ideologically Marxist, his political theories are known as Leninism.

     Born into an upper middle class family in Simbirsk, he became interested in revolutionary socialist policies after the execution of his brother in 1887. Expelled from Kazan Imperial University for participating in protests against the Tsarist regime in the Russian Empire, in the following years he graduated if in law.

Lenin Striking and Revolutionary Quotes:

• "We will use the 'useful idiot' on the front lines. We will incite class hatred. We will destroy their moral base, family and spirituality. They will eat the crumbs that fall from our tables. The state will be God."
  

• "Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out and are unable to fight."

• "We are not utopian, we do not 'dream' to dispense with all administration, all subordination at once. These anarchist dreams, based on the misunderstanding of the tasks of the dictatorship of the proletariat, are totally alien to Marxism and, in fact, only serve to postpone the revolution. socialist 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 'overseers and accountants'. "

• "Three keys to success: read, read, read."

• "There is no moral in politics; it is just an experience. A scoundrel can be useful because he is a scoundrel."

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Lenin Iconic Quotes to Reflect:

• "As long as the state exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state."
  

• "During the life of the great revolutionaries, the oppressive classes constantly persecuted them, received their theories with the wildest malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, canonize them, so to speak, and sanctify their names to a certain extent for the "comfort" of the oppressed classes and with the aim of deceiving them, while at the same time, stealing the revolutionary theory of their substance, dulling their revolutionary side and popularizing it."

• "Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out and are unable to fight."

• "A lie told quite often becomes true. Cursing them for what you are, accusing them of what you do."

• "Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement."

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