Vladimir Lenin Revolution Quotations

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back

How can you make a revolution without executions?

We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.

The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.