Frases de Vladimír Iljič Lenin

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“É preciso sonhar, mas com a condição de crer em nosso sonho, de observar com atenção a vida real, de confrontar a observação com nosso sonho, de realizar escrupulosamente nossas fantasias. Sonhos, acredite neles.”

“Um imbecil pode, por si só, levantar dez vezes mais problemas que dez sábios juntos não conseguiriam resolver.”

“Enquanto o capitalismo e o socialismo existirem, não poderemos viver em paz. No fim, um ou outro terá de triunfar – um réquiem será cantado sobre a República Soviética ou sobre o mundo capitalista.”

“A paz: uma trégua para a guerra.”

“A morte de uma organização acontece quando os de baixo já não querem e os de cima já não podem.”

“Há décadas em que nada acontece e há semanas em que décadas acontecem.”

“Por isso, seria um grande erro aprender-se comunismo apenas nos livros. Os nossos discursos e artigos actuais não são mera repetição daquilo que se diziam antes do comunismo, porque os nossos discursos e artigos estão ligados com o nosso trabalho diário em todos os domínios. Sem trabalho, sem luta, o conhecimento livresco do comunismo, adquirido em folhetos e obras comunistas, não tem absolutamente nenhum valor, porque não faria mais do que manter o velho abismo entre a teoria e a prática, o velho abismo que era o aspecto mais nocivo da antiga sociedade burguesa.”

“Sem teoria revolucionária, não há prática revolucionária.”

“Os fatos são teimosos.”

“A liberdade é uma coisa tão preciosa que devia ser racionada.”

“O partido é a mente, a honra e a consciência da nossa época.”

“Um homem com uma arma pode controlar 100 sem uma”

“Que desperdício perdermos Mussolini. Ele é um homem de primeira classe que levaria nosso partido ao poder na Itália. [Discurso a uma delegação de socialistas italianos em Moscou após a marcha de Mussolini em Roma em 1922]”

“Em todo o mundo, onde quer que hajam capitalistas, liberdade de imprensa significa liberdade de comprar jornais, de escritores, de subornar, de comprar e fingir "opinião pública" para o benefício da burguesia.”

“Os capitalistas são tão capazes de auto sacrifício como de se auto erguerem pelos seus próprios atacadores.”

“Quando um liberal é abusado, ele diz: "Graças a Deus eles não me bateram".
Quando ele é espancado, ele agradece a Deus que eles não o mataram.
Quando ele for morto, ele agradecerá a Deus que sua alma imortal foi libertada de seu barro mortal.”

“To hoard surpluses of grain and other food products at a time when the people in Petrograd, in Moscow, and in dozens of non-agricultural uyezds are not only suffering from a shortage of bread, but are cruelly starving, is an enormous crime deserving the most ruthless punishment.”

“We, the Great-Russian proletarians, who defend no privileges whatever, do not defend this privilege either. We are fighting on the ground of a definite state; we unite the workers of all nations living in this state; we cannot vouch for any particular path of national development, for we are marching to our class goal along all possible paths.”

“You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.”

“Perhaps the profoundest cause of disagreement with the Narodniks is the difference in our fundamental views on social and economic processes. When studying the latter, the Narodnik usually draws conclusions that point to some moral; he does not regard the diverse groups of persons taking part in production as creators of various forms of life; he does not set out to present the sum-total of social and economic relationships as the result of the mutual relations between these groups, which have different interests and different historical roles.”

“The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.”

“There are times when the interests of the proletariat call for ruthless extermination of its enemies in open armed clashes.”

“The proletarian revolution is impossible without the sympathy and support of the overwhelming majority of the working people.”

“To become a power the class-conscious workers must win the majority to their side. As long as no violence is used against the people there is no other road to power. We are not Blancists, we do not stand for the seizure of power by a minority.”

“The war of 1914-18 was imperialist (that is, an annexationist, predatory, war of plunder) on the part of both sides; it was a war for the division of the world, for the partition and repartition of colonies and spheres of influence of finance capital.”

“The truth about Kolchak (and his double, Denikin) has now been revealed in full. The shooting of tens of thousands of workers. The shooting even of Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries. The flogging of peasants of entire districts. The public flogging of women. The absolutely unbridled power of the officers, the sons of landowners. Endless looting. Such is the truth about Kolchak and Denikin.”

“In view of the undoubted honesty of those broad sections of the mass believers in revolutionary defencism who accept the war only as a necessity, and not as a means of conquest, in view of the fact that they are being deceived by the bourgeoisie, it is necessary with particular thoroughness, persistence and patience to explain their error to them, and to prove that without overthrowing capital it is impossible to end the war by a truly democratic peace.”

“Classes still remain, and will remain everywhere for years after the proletariat's conquest of power.”

“It is necessary to be able to withstand all this, to agree to any and every sacrifice, and even—if need be—to resort to all sorts of stratagems, manoeuvres and illegal methods, to evasion and subterfuges in order to penetrate the trade unions, to remain in them, and to carry on Communist work in them at all costs.”

“All the marvels of science and the gains of culture belong to the nation as a whole, and never again will man’s brain and human genius be used for oppression and exploitation.”

“Discrimination among citizens on account of their religious convictions is wholly intolerable. Even the bare mention of a citizen’s religion in official documents should unquestionably be eliminated.”

“Modern monopolist capitalism on a world-wide scale — imperialist wars are absolutely inevitable under such an economic system, as long as private property in the means of production exists.”

“Recovery proceeding excellently. Am sure that the crushing of the Kazan Czechs and whiteguards, as well as of the kulak extortioners supporting them, will be exemplarily ruthless.”

“It is precisely now and only now, when in the starving regions people are eating human flesh, and hundreds if not thousands of corpses are littering the roads, that we can (and therefore must) carry out the confiscation of church valuables… I come to the categorical conclusion that precisely at this moment we must give battle to the Black Hundred clergy in the most decisive and merciless manner and crush its resistance with such brutality that it will not forget it for decades to come… The greater the number of representatives of the reactionary clergy and reactionary bourgeoisie we succeed in executing for this reason, the better.”

“For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom — freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.”

“One cannot live in society and be free from society.”

“Modern militarism is the result of capitalism. In both its forms it is the “vital expression” of capitalism — as a military force used by the capitalist states in their external conflicts and as a weapon in the hands of the ruling classes for suppressing every kind of movement, economic and political, of the proletariat.”

“The centralized state power that is peculiar to bourgeois society came into being in the period of the fall of absolutism. Two institutions are most characteristic of this state machine: bureaucracy and a standing army.”

“For the state to wither away completely, complete communism is necessary.”

“Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.”

“Imperialism is capitalism in that stage of development in which the domination of monopolies and finance capital has established itself; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun; in which the partition of all the territories of the globe among the great capitalist powers has been completed.”

“It is obvious that a whiteguard insurrection is being prepared in Nizhni. You must strain every effort, appoint three men will) dictatorial powers (yourself, Markin and one other), organise immediately mass terror, shoot and deport the hundreds of prostitutes who are making drunkards of the soldiers, former officers and the like.”

“Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures had met the needs of the poor peasants, would there have been unrest among the peasant masses?”

“Tsarism regards the war as a means of diverting attention from the mounting discontent within the country and of suppressing the growing revolutionary movement.”

“It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.”