Vlagyimir Iljics Lenin idézetek
Vlagyimir Iljics Lenin: Idézetek angolul
“One man with a gun can control 100 without one.”
Not found in Lenin's Collected Works. Began to surface on the internet in the mid-1990s.
Misattributed
Változat: One man with a gun can control a hundred without one.
Forrás: On the Foreign Policy of the Soviet State
Forrás: The State and Revolution (1917), Ch. 5
Kontextus: Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich – that is the democracy of capitalist society. If we look more closely into the machinery of capitalist democracy, we see everywhere, in the "petty" – supposedly petty – details of the suffrage (residential qualifications, exclusion of women, etc.), in the technique of the representative institutions, in the actual obstacles to the right of assembly (public buildings are not for "paupers"!), in the purely capitalist organization of the daily press, etc., etc., – we see restriction after restriction upon democracy. These restrictions, exceptions, exclusions, obstacles for the poor seem slight, especially in the eyes of one who has never known want himself and has never been in close contact with the oppressed classes in their mass life (and nine out of 10, if not 99 out of 100, bourgeois publicists and politicians come under this category); but in their sum total these restrictions exclude and squeeze out the poor from politics, from active participation in democracy.
Collected Works, Vol. 28, p. 62–75.
Collected Works
Forrás: A Letter to American Workingmen: From the Socialist Soviet Republic of Russia
Collected Works, Vol. 27, pp. 383–387.
Collected Works
Forrás: Revolution!: Sayings of Vladimir Lenin
“Federal Switzerlandization would be a huge step backwards for Germany. Two”
Forrás: The State and Revolution
Forrás: Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917), Chapter Three
Forrás: Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism: Full Text of 1916 Edition
Collected Works, Vol. 32, pp. 504–9.
Collected Works
Forrás: Revolution!: Sayings of Vladimir Lenin
“There are decades when weeks happen, and weeks when decades happen.”
or: There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
Always without citation but supposedly describing the Russian Revolution; earliest quotes online dating ~2005-2006 "Exposing the Big Lie: Interview with George Galloway by Eric Ruder" http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Europe/ExposingBigLie_GGalloway.html
"Johann Hari: Why won't Israel just exchange prisoners? This is such a wacky, left-wing ideal that it was pursued by Ariel Sharon two years ago" http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-why-wont-israel-just-exchange-prisoners-6094888.html, 19 July 2006; popularized describing the Arab Spring. May be loosely based on a similar phrasing by Karl Marx:
How soon the English workers will throw off what seems to be a bourgeois contagion remains to be seen. So far as the main theses in your book [Condition of the Working Class in England] are concerned, by the by, they have been corroborated down to the very last detail by developments subsequent to 1844. For I have again been comparing the book with the notes I made on the ensuing period. Only your small-minded German philistine who measures world history by the ell and by what he happens to think are ‘interesting news items’, could regard 20 years as more than a day where major developments of this kind are concerned, though these may be again succeeded by days into which 20 years are compressed.
Letter, Marx to Engels, 9 April 1863 in Marx and Engels, Selected Correspondence 1965, 140 http://marxists.catbull.com/archive/marx/works/1863/letters/63_04_09.htm
Misattributed
1.1, Essential Works of Lenin (1966)
(1917)
Forrás: The State and Revolution
§ 3.4, Essential Works of Lenin (1966), pp. 307-308
Forrás: The State and Revolution (1917)
Forrás: Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism: a popular outline
“We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us.”
According to the book, "They Never Said It", p. 64, there is no evidence Lenin ever said this. Lenin was supposed to have made his observation to one of his close associates, Grigori Zinoviev, not long after a meeting of the Politburo in the early 1920s, but there is no evidence that he ever did. Experts on the Soviet Union reject the rope quote as spurious.
Misattributed
Forrás: The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution
Forrás: Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917), Chapter One
Forrás: Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism: Full Text of 1916 Edition
