It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
Lenin, Vladimir
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The goal of socialism is communism.
VLADIMIR LENIN Fascism is capitalism in decay.
VLADIMIR LENIN Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
VLADIMIR LENIN Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapa...
VLADIMIR LENIN One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
VLADIMIR LENIN Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
VLADIMIR LENIN If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, th...
VLADIMIR LENIN When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.
VLADIMIR LENIN The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collect...
VLADIMIR LENIN While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
VLADIMIR LENIN Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
VLADIMIR LENIN Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
VLADIMIR LENIN The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
VLADIMIR LENIN Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
VLADIMIR LENIN It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
VLADIMIR LENIN The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
VLADIMIR LENIN Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
VLADIMIR LENIN Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his...
VLADIMIR LENIN Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.
VLADIMIR LENIN Fascism is capitalism in decay
VLADIMIR LENIN No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
VLADIMIR LENIN Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
VLADIMIR LENIN A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
VLADIMIR LENIN The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the opp...
VLADIMIR LENIN There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just beca...
VLADIMIR LENIN Crime is a product of social excess.
VLADIMIR LENIN A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary s...
VLADIMIR LENIN It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or l...
VLADIMIR LENIN If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say ...
VLADIMIR LENIN Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
VLADIMIR LENIN When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who n...
VLADIMIR LENIN The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collect...
VLADIMIR LENIN Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Fr...
VLADIMIR LENIN The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same...
VLADIMIR LENIN Crime is a product of social excess.
LENIN, VLADIMIR The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.
VLADIMIR LENIN There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
VLADIMIR LENIN Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.
VLADIMIR LENIN Crime is a product of social excess
VLADIMIR LENIN Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism
VLADIMIR LENIN Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapa...
VLADIMIR LENIN It is true that liberty is precious - so precious that it must be rationed
VLADIMIR LENIN Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman o...
VLADIMIR LENIN Sometimes--history needs a push.
VLADIMIR LENIN Worst of all, it is women who usually have to do, usually alone, all the dirty work of the kitchen a...
VLADIMIR LENIN No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses
VLADIMIR LENIN A lie told often enough becomes truth
VLADIMIR LENIN Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.
VLADIMIR LENIN The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency
VLADIMIR LENIN We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great Fre...
VLADIMIR LENIN They capitalists will furnish credits which will serve us for the support of the Communist Party in ...
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) It is necessary to be able to withstand all this, to agree to any and every sacrifice, and evenif ne...
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be take...
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) A lie told often enough becomes truth.
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Fr...
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman o...
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, th...
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) Our power does not know liberty or justice. It is established on the destruction of the individual w...
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapa...
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person,...
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) Any cook should be able to run the country.
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward -- or go back. He who ...
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) Fascism is capitalism in decay.
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because al...
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to d...
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his...
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I no...
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.
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VLADIMIR ILYICH LENIN A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
LENIN While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
LENIN Be as radical as reality.
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VLADIMIR PUTIN We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in toda...
VLADIMIR PUTIN In some of the states in the U.S., homosexuality remains a felony.
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VLADIMIR PUTIN We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and politica...
VLADIMIR PUTIN Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.
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VLADIMIR PUTIN We should not just consume hydrocarbon fuel but use it to develop nuclear energy, hydro power and re...
VLADIMIR PUTIN We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God crea...
VLADIMIR PUTIN Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.
VLADIMIR PUTIN You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.
VLADIMIR PUTIN Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. W...
VLADIMIR PUTIN The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.
VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY We're no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable.
VLADIMIR PUTIN Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In ...
VLADIMIR PUTIN Perfection itself is imperfection.
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VLADIMIR NABOKOV The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as d...
VLADIMIR PUTIN How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's g...
VLADIMIR PUTIN If we speak calmly, in a businesslike fashion, let me draw your attention to the fact that Russia su...
VLADIMIR PUTIN Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it rest...
VLADIMIR PUTIN No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of m...
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV The love boat has crashed against the everyday.
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VLADIMIR NABOKOV A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze o...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was you...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers,...
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VLADIMIR NABOKOV Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Queer, how I misinterpreted the designations of doom.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn s...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
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VLADIMIR NABOKOV The tiny madman in his padded cell.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you h...
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and ...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event,...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. -...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even
greater one.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Solitude is the playfield of Satan. - Pale Fire, 1962.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Solitude is the playfield of Satan.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen onl...
VLADIMIR PUTIN It is wrong to make anyone into an enemy; it is wrong to scare the people of one's own country w...
VLADIMIR PUTIN Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First ...
VLADIMIR PUTIN It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become c...
VLADIMIR PUTIN It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to ...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I read papers, try to watch news programs on television, but, as a rule, recorded. During the day I ...
VLADIMIR PUTIN We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a bus...
VLADIMIR PUTIN The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into acc...
VLADIMIR PUTIN In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defe...
VLADIMIR PUTIN Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrou...
VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to en...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV In 1995, Russia virtually gave Chechnya de facto statehood and independence even though, de jure, it...
VLADIMIR PUTIN The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.
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VLADIMIR NABOKOV Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
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VLADIMIR NABOKOV All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For m...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
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VLADIMIR NABOKOV Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.
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VLADIMIR NABOKOV Caress the detail, the divine detail.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack o...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.
VLADIMIR KRAMNIK Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.
VLADIMIR PUTIN Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.
VLADIMIR PUTIN Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human vict...
VLADIMIR PUTIN Terrorism has no nationality or religion.
VLADIMIR PUTIN The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay ...
VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY At least in Russia, you cannot just go and tap into someone's phone conversation without a warra...
VLADIMIR PUTIN A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his ...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Scriabin slept with Chopin under his pillow, and I slept with Wagner under mine. I could not concent...
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ It is important for the musician to learn as much about the composer as possible and to study the mu...
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VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern lite...
VLADIMIR PUTIN One can truly enjoy his or her life only while experiencing it, and it is inevitably related to a ce...
VLADIMIR PUTIN I'm sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.
VLADIMIR PUTIN The Chechnya problem is a centuries-old problem. The thing is that today, fundamentalists and terror...
VLADIMIR PUTIN Chechnya is part and parcel of the Russian Federation.
VLADIMIR PUTIN Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.
VLADIMIR PUTIN He loved her in spite of her unlovableness. Armande had many trying, thought not necessarily rare, t...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.
VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV You need to put drones under control; you need to lay out certain rules of engagement in order to pr...
VLADIMIR PUTIN Of the not very many ways known of shedding one's body, falling, falling, falling is the supreme met...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I have never stated Russia is an energy superpower, but we have more reserves than almost anybody el...
VLADIMIR PUTIN Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean... Russia has a certain nat...
VLADIMIR PUTIN The Russian people have unilaterally made their choice in direction of democracy in the early '9...
VLADIMIR PUTIN Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
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