Lenin on Revolutions and Rifles
“A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is an act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets, and cannons, all of which are highly authoritarian means.”
“One man with a gun can control 100 without one.”
State and Revolution by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin.
The alias, one of over 150 used throughout his career, “Lenin” first appeared when he started signing his articles with “N. Lenin” for the newspaper Iskra in 1901.