Vladimír Iljič Lenin citáty

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„Kapitalisti sa môžu vykúpiť z každej krízy, ak prinútia robotníkov za to zaplatiť.“

„Aby si dosiahol veľkého treba začať s menším.“

„Aj keby mal človek niekoľko rokov, je mladý a silný, pokiaľ má komu povedať mama.“

„Pravda nesmie závisieť na tom komu bude slúžiť.“

„Keď pracuješ, nehanbi sa povedať ľuďom, ktorí prekážajú, že ti prekážajú.“

„Nevedomosť má bližšie k pravde ako predsudok.“

„Zvelič pravdu a máš hlúposť.“

„Idúc do boja, musíme chcieť zvíťaziť a vedieť ukázať správnu cestu k víťazstvu“

„Učiť sa, učiť sa, učiť sa! zo state "Spiatočnícky smer v ruskej sociálnej demokracii" z roku 1899, zverejnenej v roku 1924“

„Každý, kto sa považuje za umelca, má právo tvoriť slobodne, podľa svojho ideálu, nezávisle na čomkoľvek.“

„Len revolúcia je hybnou silou tohto sprachnivého konzervatívneho sveta. Revolúcia a nie evolúcia ním môže otriasť v samotných jeho základoch a premeniť na kopu prehnitých ruín.“

„Užitečni idioti se poperou, aby nám dodali i provaz, na kterém je poté pověsíme.“

„Človeka nesúdime podľa toho, čo o sebe hovorí alebo čo si o sebe myslí, ale podľa toho, čo robí.“

„Menej bombastických fráz - viac jednoduchej všednej práce.“

„Múdry je, kto robí chyby nie príliš podstatné a kto ich dokáže ľahko a rýchlo napraviť.“

„Ochraňovať našu mladú republiku zavedením a prevádzaním tvrdých potlačení, odstrániť všetkých vinníkov a podozrivých, alebo tých, ktorí by moli byt podozriví, dať do koncentračných táborov, vytvoriť červený teror, potrestať smrťou všetkých pokladaných za vinných a členov ich rodín dať do koncentračných táborov k tomuto účelu zriadených.“

„Štát je silný vtedy, keď masy všetko vedia, všetko môžu a všetko konajú vedome.“

„V revolúcii ľudia rýchlo dospievajú.“

„Môže byť národ slobodný, ak utláča iné národy? To nemôže.“

„Učiť sa, učiť sa, učiť sa!“

„Najhlbším zdrojom náboženských predsudkov je bieda a tmárstvo, práve proti ním musíme bojovať.“

„Mám rád, keď sa ľudia škriepia, znamená to, že vedia, čo robia a že majú smer.“

„Nedostatky človeka sú akoby pokračovaním jeho cností. Keď však prednosti siahajú ďalej, než treba, keď sa prejavujú nie vtedy, keď treba a nie tam, kde treba, potom sú to nedostatky.“

„Je príjemnejšie a užitočnejšie prejsť „skúsenosťou z revolúcie“ ako písať o nej.“

„Buržoázia sa dnes vyhýba zdaneniu úplatkárstvom a prostredníctvom svojich spojení; musíme uzavrieť všetky medzery.“

„Posledné slová pred smrťou k svojmu psovi, ktorý mu k posteli priniesol mŕtveho vtáka.“

“It is necessary sometimes to take one step backward to take two steps forward.”

“The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance… the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it.”

“He loved her with the fire of a thousand suns, she was his solace in the chaos, his redemption.”

“This transformation of competition into monopoly is one of the most important—if not the most important—phenomena of modern capitalist economy”

“Socialism means keeping account of everything. You will have socialism if you take stock of every piece of iron and cloth.”

“Trust is good, control is better.”

“I am bound to accord you, in the name of free speech, the full right to shout, lie and write to your heart’s content. But you are bound to grant me, in the name of freedom of association, the right to enter into, or withdraw from, association with people advocating this or that view.”

“The proletarian state must effect the transition to collective farming with extreme caution and only very gradually, by the force of example, without any coercion of the middle peasant.”

“It is not national interests we are upholding — we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank higher than national interests, higher than the interests of the state. We are defenders of the socialist fatherland.”

“In Italy, comrades, in Italy there was but a Socialist able enough to lead the people through a revolutionary path, Benito Mussolini.”

“For private property is sacred, and no one can be prohibited from buying, selling, exchanging or mortgaging shares, etc.”

“Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.”

“Tsar Nicholas the Bloody, who has dispersed the First and Second Dumas, who has drowned Russia in blood, enslaved Poland and Finland, and is in alliance with out — and-out reactionaries conducting a policy of stifling the Jews and all “aliens”, the tsar whose loyal friends shot down the workers on the Lena and ruined the peasants to the point of starvation all over Russia — that tsar pretends to be the champion of Slav independence and freedom!"”

“Notwithstanding all the differences in the aims and tasks of the Russian revolution, compared with the French revolution of 1871, the Russian proletariat had to resort to the same method of struggle as that first used by the Paris Commune — civil war. Mindful of the lessons of the Commune, it knew that the proletariat should not ignore peaceful methods of struggle — they serve its ordinary, day-to-day interests, they are necessary in periods of preparation for revolution — but it must never forget that in certain conditions the class struggle assumes the form of armed conflict and civil war; there are times when the interests of the proletariat call for ruthless extermination of its enemies in open armed clashes.”

“To be a materialist is to acknowledge objective truth, which is revealed to us by our sense organs.”

“In a democratic republic, Engels continues, "wealth wields its power indirectly, all the more effectively," first, by means of the "direct corruption of the officials (America); second, by the means of "the alliance between the government and the Stock Exchange”

“History has now confronted us with an immediate task which is the most revolutionary of all the immediate tasks confronting the proletariat of any country. The fulfilment of this task, the destruction of the most powerful bulwark, not only of European, but (it may now be said) of Asiatic reaction, would make the Russian proletariat the vanguard of the international revolutionary proletariat. And we have the right to count upon acquiring this honourable title, already earned by our predecessors, the revolutionaries of the seventies, if we succeed in inspiring our movement, which is a thousand times broader and deeper, with the same devoted determination and vigour.”

“Our business is to help get everything possible done to make sure the "last" chance for a peaceful development of the revolution, to help by the presentation of our programme, by making clear its national character, its absolute accord with the interests and demands of a vast majority of the population.”

“Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.”

“To call a fight for the Zionist idea of a Jewish nation, for the federal principle of Party organisation, a “fight for the equality of the Jews in the world family of the proletariat” is to degrade the struggle from the plane of ideas and principles to that of suspicion, incitement and fanning of historically-evolved prejudices. It glaringly reveals a lack of real ideas and principles as weapons of struggle.”

“People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.”

“It is stupid to tolerate "Nikola;" all Chekists have to be on alert to shoot anyone who doesn't turn up to work because of "Nikola."”

“The real emancipation of the Chinese people from age-long slavery would be impossible without the great, sincerely democratic enthusiasm which is rousing the working masses and making them capable of miracles, and which is evident from every sentence of Sun Yat-sen’s platform.”

“Abolition of the police, the army and the bureaucracy. The salaries of all officials, all of whom are elective and displaceable at any time, not to exceed the average wage of a competent worker.”

“It is not our immediate task to “introduce” socialism, but only to bring social production and the distribution of products at once under the control of the Soviets of Workers’ Deputies.”

“In our attitude towards the war, which under the new government of Lvov and Co. unquestionably remains on Russia’s part a predatory imperialist war owing to the capitalist nature of that government, not the slightest concession to “revolutionary defencism” is permissible.”

“Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.”

“A basic condition for the necessary expansion of political agitation is the organisation of comprehensive political exposure.”

“Capitalism is commodity production at the highest stage of development, when labor power itself becomes a commodity. The growth of internal exchange, and particularly of international exchange, is a special feature of capitalism. The uneven and spasmodic character of the development of individual enterprises, of individual branches of industry and individual countries, is inevitable under the capitalist system.”