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.“

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

“When the speeches of Wilson, Clemenceau, and Lloyd George, the worst of the predators, the wild beasts of imperialism, are repeated here by Martov in the name of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party … then I say to myself that we have to be on the alert and to realise that the Cheka is indispensable!”

“The trial of the insurrectionists from Shuia, for opposing aid to the starving, should be carried out in utmost haste and should end not other than with the shooting of the very largest number of the most influential and dangerous of the Black Hundreds in Shuia, and, if possible, not only in this city but even in Moscow and several other ecclesiastical centers.”

“Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.”

“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?”

“Political institutions are a superstructure on the economic foundation.”

“Crises of every kind - economic crises more frequently, but not only these - in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly”

“I am confident that the suppression of the Kazan Czechs and White Guards, and likewise of the bloodsucking kulaks who support them, will be a model of mercilessness.”

“Humanity has not yet evolved and we do not as yet know a type of government superior to and better than the Soviets of Workers’, Agricultural Labourers’, Peasants’, and Soldiers’ Deputies.”

“The Bolsheviks will do everything to secure this peaceful development of the revolution.”

“Marx said that the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat lies between capitalism and communism. The more the proletariat presses the bourgeoisie, the more furiously they will resist. We know what vengeance was wreaked on the workers in France in 1848. And when people charge us with harshness we wonder how they can forget the rudiments of Marxism.”

“The reflection of nature in man’s thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and their solution.”

“After retaining power for two months and ten days, the workers of Paris, who for the first time in history established the Commune, the embryo of Soviet power, perished at the hands of the French Cadets, Mensheviks and Right Socialist-Revolutionaries of a Kaledin type. The French workers had to pay an unprecedentedly heavy price for the first experience of workers' government, the meaning and purpose of which the overwhelming majority of the peasants in France did not know.”

“For any truth, if overdone (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity.”

“… carry out merciless mass terror against the kulaks, priests and White Guards; unreliable elements to be locked up in a concentration camp outside the town.”

“The most reliable and best armed groups of the mass of revolutionary contingents organised to take extreme measures to overcome the famine shall be detailed for dispatch to all stations and all uyezds of the principal grain supplying gubernias. These groups, with the participation of railwaymen delegated by local railway committees, shall be authorised, firstly, to control the movement of grain freights; secondly, take charge of the collection and storage of grain; thirdly, adopt the most extreme revolutionary measures to fight speculators and to requisition grain stocks. When making any record of requisition, arrest or execution, the revolutionary contingents shall summon at least six witnesses to be selected from the poorest section of the population closest at hand.”

“War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals… ‘He who does not work, neither shall he eat’ – this is the practical commandment of socialism… [Our] common aim [is] to clean the land of Russia of all vermin, of fleas – the rogues, of bugs – the rich, and so on and so forth.”

“We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these.”

“Although the Russian bourgeois revolution of 1905-07 displayed no such “brilliant” successes as at time fell to the Portuguese and Turkish revolutions, it was undoubtedly a "real people's" revolution, since the mass of the people, their majority, the very lowest social groups, crushed by oppression and exploitation, rose independently and stamped on the entire course of the revolution the imprint of their own demands, their attempt to build in their own way a new society in place of the old society that was being destroyed.”

“The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i. e., he must be a dialectical materialist.”

“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!”

“… when people charge us with harshness we wonder how they can forget the rudiments of Marxism.”

“The train of history makes sharp turns and those who are not skilled riders fall off the train.”

“The “democratisation” of the ownership of shares, from which the bourgeois sophists and opportunist so-called “Social-Democrats” expect (or say that they expect) the “democratisation of capital”, the strengthening of the role and significance of small scale production, etc., is, in fact, one of the ways of increasing the power of the financial oligarchy.”

“We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society.”

“The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced countries and outdistance them, too, in economic matters.”

“Revolutionary Social-Democracy has always included the struggle for reforms as part of its activities. But it utilises “economic” agitation for the purpose of presenting to the government, not only demands for all sorts of measures, but also (and primarily) the demand that it cease to be an autocratic government.”

“To carry on a war for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie, a war which is a hundred times more difficult, protracted and complex than the most stubborn of ordinary wars between states, and to renounce in advance any change of tack, or any utilisation of a conflict of interests (even if temporary) among one’s enemies, or any conciliation or compromise with possible allies (even if they are temporary, unstable, vacillating or conditional allies) — is that not ridiculous in the extreme?”

“Present-day society is wholly based on the exploitation of the vast masses of the working class by a tiny minority of the population, the class of the landowners and that of the capitalists. It is a slave society, since the “free” workers, who all their life work for the capitalists, are “entitled” only to such means of subsistence as are essential for the maintenance of slaves who produce profit, for the safeguarding and perpetuation of capitalist slavery.”