A collection of Lenin’s famous sayings

1. Large machine industry only means the electrification of the whole country.

2. Miraculous predictions are myths, but scientific predictions are facts.

3. Whoever has more reserves, more manpower, and more support among the people will be able to win the war.

4. It is better to have a good pear than a basket of rotten pears. Even if there are only two or three active and loyal people, it is better than ten energetic people.

5. Forgetting the past is betrayal.

6. The clamor of intellectuals is a thousand times louder than their power, but they are an excellent barometer.

7. There is only one real and only basis for increasing wealth and establishing a socialist society, and that is large industry.

8. Politics must take the first place compared with economics.

9. Some people think that only poets need fantasy. There is no reason for this. This is a stupid prejudice! Even mathematics requires fantasy, and calculus would not even have been invented without it.

10. Marx believed that the conformity of theory to reality is the only criterion for theory.

11. I would rather have less, but better.

12. General things can only exist in and through individual things. Every particular thing is a general thing. Everything that is general is something particular.

13. If the masses accept spiritual values, they will destroy them.

14. You must have the courage to face the ruthless truth.

15. If you delay the opportunity or panic, you will lose everything.

16. Patriotism is the deepest feeling for one’s motherland that has been consolidated over thousands of years.

17. Only when all residents participate in management work can the anti-bureaucratic struggle be thoroughly carried out and bureaucracy be completely defeated.

18. Intelligence lies in learning, and genius lies in accumulation.

19. Because social phenomena are extremely complex, any number of rumors or individual materials can be found at any time to confirm an opinion.

20. Any new social system requires new relationships and new disciplines between people.

21. Wasting other people’s time is equal to seeking wealth and killing, and wasting one’s own time is equal to chronic suicide.

22. The first productive force of all mankind is workers.

23. Winning time means winning everything.

24. The strength of a country lies in the consciousness of the masses.

25. Wasting other people’s time is seeking wealth and killing, and wasting one’s own time is chronic suicide.

26. The current task is to excavate ore, refine pig iron, and cast pure steel for the Marxist worldview and the superstructure consistent with this worldview, even under the most difficult conditions.

27. The best politics in the future is to talk less about politics.

28. When your enemy praises you, you probably did something stupid.

29. National differences will remain for a long time after the dictatorship of the proletariat is realized worldwide.

30. In most cases, at least in modern civilized countries, classes are usually led by political parties.

31. To achieve a big thing, you must start from small things.

32. You should have your own head on your shoulders.

33. The deepest roots of religious prejudice are poverty and ignorance.

34. Without industry, we will perish and not become an independent country.

35. Whenever there is a major political or economic crisis in a country, the broken flag of patriotism will exude the stench again.