Author of quotes: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Talent is rare. It must be systematically and carefully supported.

Ignorance is not an argument.

The bourgeoisie will betray their homeland and go to any lengths of crime just to defend their power over the people and their income.

We do not want to exaggerate the danger of the situation, but it would be immeasurably more harmful to turn a blind eye to it.

This whole revolution in general can be understood only as one of the links in the chain of socialist proletarian revolutions brought about by the imperialist war.

Socialism in words, chauvinism in deeds, is distinguished by the vile lackey adaptation of the leaders

The advanced countries are turning - we are talking about their rear - into military prisons for the workers.

If the mass of the people does not have in their hands all the fullness of state power, - if at least some kind of power remains in the state, not chosen by the people, not being replaced, completely independent of the people, then real satisfaction of the urgent and recognized needs is impossible.

It's about the class, not the faces ... No change of faces can change anything until the classes in power have changed.

Under the bourgeois system, finance capital can be freely bought by any government and officials.

Obviously, the "left" in Germany took their desire, their ideological-political attitude, for objective reality. This is the most dangerous mistake for revolutionaries. In Russia, where a purely wild and ferocious oppression of the tsarist particularly long and in particularly varied forms gave rise to revolutionaries of different persuasions, revolutionaries astonishing devotion, enthusiasm, heroism, will power, in Russia, this mistake of the revolutionaries we are especially closely watched especially carefully studied, especially because we know it is especially clearly visible on the other. For the Communists in Germany parliamentarism, of course, is "politically obsolete", but the point is not to accept obsolete for us obsolete for the class, for obsolete for the masses. Just here we again see that the "left" can't talk, can't behave as the party class, the party of the masses. You must not stoop to the level of the masses, to the level of the backward strata of the class. No doubt about it. You must tell them the bitter truth. You must call their bourgeois-democratic and parliamentary prejudices prejudice. However, you must soberly follow the actual state of consciousness and preparedness of the class (not only its Communist vanguard), of the entire toiling masses (not only of its advanced people).
If "millions" and "legions", but just a fairly significant minority of industrial workers is for Catholic priests, rural workers the landlords and kulaks (Grossbauern) - it is already here with certainty it follows that parliamentarism in Germany is not yet politically obsolete, that participation in parliamentary elections and in the struggle on the parliamentary rostrum is obligatory for the party of the revolutionary proletariat precisely for the purpose of educating the backward strata of its class, for the purposes of awakening and enlightenment to the poor, downtrodden, dark village mass. While you are unable to disperse the bourgeois Parliament and any reactionary institutions of a different type, you must work inside them precisely because there are more workers, duped by the priests and village corners, otherwise you risk becoming just windbags.

Under the tsars until 1905 we had no "legal possibilities", but when Zubatov, a security guard, organised black-hundred workers Assembly workers and companies to catch the revolutionaries and combating them, we sent to these meetings and in these companies the members of our party (I personally remember one of their comrade. Babushkin, a prominent St. Petersburg workers who were shot by the tsarist generals in 1906), which established communication with the ground, he contrived to conduct his campaign and pulled out the workers from the influence of zubatova.

Because the whole task of the Communists is to be able to convince the backward, to be able to work among them, rather than retreating from them childishly invented-the"left" slogans.

To be able to help "the masses" and to win the sympathy, the empathy, the support of the "masses", we must not be afraid of difficulties, not afraid of NIT-picking, foot pegs, insults, persecution from the "leaders" (who, being opportunists and social-chauvinists, are in most cases directly or indirectly connected with the bourgeoisie and the police) and be sure to work where there are lots. You should be able to bring any sacrifice, to overcome the greatest obstacles to systematically, persistently, persistently, patiently to promote and campaign precisely in those institutions, societies, unions, at least the most that neither is the reaction, where is the proletarian or proproetary mass. And the trade unions and worker cooperatives (the latter sometimes, at least) is exactly such an organization, where there are plenty.