Lenin quotes

Of all tyrannies in history, the Bolshevik tyranny is the worst, the most destructive, the most degrading. Every British and French soldier killed last year was really done to death by Lenin and Trotskynot in fair war, but by the treacherous desertion of an ally without parallel in the history of the world.

- Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill
  Speech, London,11  Apr.

Lenin was right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning theexisting basisofsociety thanto debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces ofeconomic lawontheside ofdestruction, and doesit in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.

-John Maynard, 1st Baron Keynes (of Tilton)
  The Economic Consequences of the Peace.

Tell me, frankly, what ought to remain of Lenin: an art bronze, oil portraits, etchings, watercolours, his secretary's diary, his friends'memoirs or a file of photographs taken of him at work and rest, archives of his books, writing pads, notebooks, shorthand reports, films, phonograph records? I don't think there's any choice. Art hasno place inmodernlife† Everycultured modern man must wage war against art, as against opium. Photograph and be photographed!

- Alexander Rodchenko
Quoted in Robert HughesThe Shock of the New (1980).

IfIhadtodoitoveragain,Iwouldnotevenbeacommunist. And if Leninwerealivetoday, hewould say thesamething.

-Todor Zhivkov
  In the SundayTimes, 9 Dec.