Famous quotes containing the words ilyich lenin, vladimir ilyich, vladimir, ilyich and/or lenin:
“While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)
“Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)
“What’s wrong, a little pavement sickness?”
—Russian saying popular in the Soviet period, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)
“To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities—that is not to be taken seriously in politics.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)
“I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.”
—Mikhail Gorbachev (b. 1931)