43 Quotes About Lenin
- Author Lars T. Lih
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Armand’s role in Lenin’s life should not be reduced to her alleged stint as ‘Lenin’s mistress’.
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- Author Jacques Pauw
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If there was ever a capitalist finger up Lenin's waxy ass, it was the opening of the ultra-luxurious GUM store on the eastern border of the square, just a stone's throw from the mausoleum.
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- Author China Miéville
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Lenin turned to page 2 of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. There, a short report informed of a revolution in Petrograd. Lenin, too, looked u in thought, his eyes wide.
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- Author Umberto Eco
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There must be a connection between the lust for power and impotentia coeundi. I liked Marx, I was sure that he and his Jenny had made love merrily. You can feel it in the easy pace of his prose and in his humor. On the other hand, I remember remarking one day in the corridors of the university that if you screwed Krupskaya all the time, you'd end up writing a lousy book like Materialism and Empiriocriticism.
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- Author Vasily Grossman
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No artist has paintedA true portrait of LeninAges to come will completeLenin's unfinished portrait.Did Poletaev understand the tragic implication of his lines about Lenin? (pg179)
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- Author Brian Cox
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I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I can make it a triptych.
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- Author Octavian Paler
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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