One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.
Vladimir LeninRecovery 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.
Vladimir LeninThe history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
Vladimir LeninNo Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.
Vladimir LeninYou have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased to be the work of a single socialist of the nineteenth century, even though he was a genius, and that it has become the doctrine of millions and tens of millions of proletarians all over the world, who are applying it in their struggle against capitalism.
Vladimir Lenin