Source: www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917...

"The so-called Great Powers have long been exploiting and enslaving a whole number of small and weak nations. And the imperialist war is a war for the division and redivision of this kind of booty."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1917
📚: State and Revolution

Source: www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/...

"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."
👤: Karl Marx
🕑: 1852
📚: Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Source: www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/...

"Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends."
👤: Friedrich Engels
🕑: 1877
📚: Anti-Dühring

Source: www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/...

"Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research."
👤: Friedrich Engels
🕑: 1877
📚: Anti-Dühring

Source: www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915...

"We fully regard civil wars, i.e., wars waged by the oppressed class against the oppressing class, slaves against slave-owners, serfs against land-owners, and wage-workers against the bourgeoisie, as legitimate, progressive and necessary."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1915
📚: Socialism and War

Source: www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1904...

"But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1904
📚: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Source: www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1868/...

"Is your wife also active in the German ladies' great emancipation campaign? I think that German women should begin by driving their husbands to self-emancipation."
👤: Karl Marx
🕑: 1868
📚: Letter to Kugelmann

Source: www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914...

"I am in general trying to read Hegel materialistically: Hegel is materialism which has been stood on its head (according to Engels) – that is to say, I cast aside for the most part God, the Absolute, the Pure Idea, etc."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1914
📚: Conspectus of Hegel’s Logic

Source: www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920...

"Without such thorough, circumspect and long preparations [since 1903], we could not have achieved victory in October 1917, or have consolidated that victory."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1920
📚: Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder

Source: www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915...

"War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished and Socialism is created."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1915
📚: Socialism and War

Source: www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917...

"It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1917
📚: April Theses

Source: www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913...

"Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1913
📚: The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism

Source: www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/se...

"In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage."
👤: Chairman Mao
🕑: 1944
📚: Selected Works, Vol. III

Source: www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917...

"It is the duty of the revolution to put an end to compromise, and to put an end to compromise means taking the path of socialist revolution."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1917
📚: Speech On The Agrarian Question November 14

Source: www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/se...

"The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge."
👤: Chairman Mao
🕑: 1941
📚: Selected Works, Vol. III