Vladimir Lenin World Quotations

It is not national interests we are upholding -- we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank higher than national interests, higher than the interests of the state. We are defenders of the socialist fatherland.

Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.

In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.

Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.

Man’s consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.

As an ultimate objective, "peace" simply means communist world control.

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

Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; 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 division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.

To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.