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.“

“Let us… take the most concrete example of state capitalism… It is Germany. Here we have the 'last word' in modern, large-scale capitalist engineering and planned organization, subordinated to Junker-bourgeois imperialism. Cross out the words in italics and [substitute] a Soviet state, that is, a proletarian state, and you will have the sum total of the conditions necessary for socialism.”

“In a country ruled by an autocracy, with a completely enslaved press, in a period of desperate political reaction in which even the tiniest outgrowth of political discontent and protest is persecuted, the theory of revolutionary Marxism suddenly forced its way into the censored literature before the government realised what had happened and the unwieldy army of censors and gendarmes discovered the new enemy and flung itself upon him.”

“You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action. A plenary meeting of the Soviet must be called to decide on mass searches in Petrograd and the goods stations. To carry out these searches, each factory and company must form contingents, not on a voluntary basis: it must be the duty of everyone to take part in these searches under the threat of being deprived of his bread card. We can't expect to get anywhere unless we resort to terrorism: speculators must be shot on the spot. Moreover, bandits must be dealt with just as resolutely: they must be shot on the spot.”

“The masses must be made to see that the Soviets of Workers’ Deputies are the only possible form of revolutionary government.”

“A full definition of an object must include the whole of human experience, both as a criterion of truth and a practical indicator of its connection with human wants.”

“Hence, political exposure in themselves serve as a powerful instrument for disintegrating the system we oppose, the means for diverting from he enemy his casual or temporary allies, the means for spreading enmity and distrust among those who permanently share power with the autocracy.”

“No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals; war on the rogues, the idlers and the rowdies!”

“In no country in the world are the majority of the population oppressed so much as in Russia; Great Russians constitute only 43 per cent of the population, i. e., less than half; the non-Russians are denied all rights.”

“If the world is eternally moving and developing matter (as the Marxists think), reflected by the developing human consciousness, what is there “static” here? The point at issue is not the immutable essence of things, or an immutable consciousness, but the correspondence between the consciousness which reflects nature and the nature which is reflected by consciousness.”

“As long as the bourgeois parliament remains a means of duping the workers, and phrases about “democracy” are used to cover up financial swindling and every kind of bribery (the particularly “subtle” brand of bribery the bourgeoisie practise with regard to writers, N. P. s, lawyers, and others is nowhere to be seen on so wide a scale as in the bourgeois parliament), we Communists are in duty bound to be in this very institution (which is supposed to express the people’s will but actually covers up the deception of the people by the wealthy) to untiringly expose this deception, and expose each and every case of the Renners and Co.’s desertion to the capitalists, against the workers”

“To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin; and in order to apply and develop, “simple interpretation” is obviously not enough.”

“The government considers it the greatest of crimes against humanity to continue this war over the issue of how to divide among the strong and rich nations the weak nationalities they have conquered, and solemnly announces its determination immediately to sign terms of peace to stop this war on the terms indicated, which are equally just for all nationalities without exception.”

“A monopoly, once it is formed and controls thousands of millions, inevitably penetrates into every sphere of public life, regardless of the form of government and all other "details."”

“Do everything to demonstrate, and in the most emphatic manner, our sympathy for the Moslems, their autonomy, independence, etc.”

“Class consciousness can be brought to the workers only from without, that is, only outside of the economic struggle, outside of the sphere of relations between workers and employers. The sphere from which alone it is possible to obtain this knowledge is the phere of relationships between all the various classes and strata and the state and the government-the sphere of the interrelations between all the various classes.”

“We can’t expect to get anywhere unless we resort to terrorism: speculators must be shot on the spot. Moreover, bandits must be dealt with just as resolutely: they must be shot on the spot.”

“The bourgeois court, which claimed to maintain order, but which, as a matter of fact, was a blind, subtle instrument for the ruthless suppression of the exploited, and an instrument for protecting the interests of the moneybags.”

“When the Soviet government is experiencing a difficult period and plots are being hatched by bourgeois elements and when at a critical moment we manage to lay bare these plots — do they think they are discovered accidentally? Oh, no, not accidentally. They are discovered because the plotters live among the masses, because they cannot succeed in their plots without the workers and peasants and it is there that, in the long run, they run up against people who go to that badly organised, as they said here, Cheka and say that exploiters are gathered in a certain place.”

“I absolutely do not pretend in the slightest fashion to knowledge of military science.”

“From the vulgar bourgeois standpoint the terms dictatorship and democracy are mutually exclusive. Failing to understand the theory of class struggle, and accustomed to seeing in the political arena the petty squabbling of the various bourgeois circles and coteries, the bourgeois conceives dictatorship to mean the annulment of all the liberties and guarantees of democracy, tyranny of every kind, and every sort of abuse of power in the personal interests of a dictator.”

“Repudiation of the Party principle and of Party discipline - that is what the opposition has arrived at. And this is tantamount to completely disarming the proletariat in the interests of the bourgeoisie It all ads up to that petty-bourgeois diffuseness and instability, that incapacity for sustained effort, unity and organized actions, which, if encouraged, must inevitably destroy any proletarian revolutionary movement.”

“We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle. But we are ready to fight, we have started it and we shall finish it with the aid of the apparatus called the Soviets.”

“We have invited and continue to invite the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries to share power with us.”

“Surely you do not imagine that we shall be victorious without applying the most cruel revolutionary terror?”

“In the two months following the revolution the industrialists have robbed the whole of Russia.”

“There are at present 300,000 bourgeois in the Crimea. These are a source of future profiteering, espionage and every kind of aid to the capitalists. However, we are not afraid of them. We say that we shall take and distribute them, make them submit, and assimilate them.”

“Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.”

“When we are reproached with having established a dictatorship of one party and, as you have heard, a united socialist front is proposed, we say, "Yes, it is a dictatorship of one party! This is what we stand for and we shall not shift from that position because it is the party that has won, in the course of decades, the position of vanguard of the entire factory and industrial proletariat. This party had won that position even before the revolution of 1905. It is the party that was at the head of the workers in 1905 and which since then — even at the time of the reaction after 1905 when the working-class movement was rehabilitated with such difficulty under the Stolypin Duma — merged with the working class and it alone could lead that class to a profound, fundamental change in the old society.”

“It is still necessary to suppress the bourgeoisie and crush its resistance. This was particularly necessary for the Commune; and one of the reasons for its defeat was that it did not do this with sufficient determination. But the organ of suppression is now the majority of the population, and not the minority, as was always the case under slavery, serfdom and wage-slavery. And since the majority of the of the people itself suppresses its oppressors, a "special force" for suppression is no longer necessary. in this sense the state begins to wither away. Instead of the special institutions of a privileged minority.. the majority can directly fulfill all these functions, and the more the functions of state power devolve upon the people generally, the less need is there for the existence of this power.”