| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 37041 |
| QUOTATION: | That is Lenin. Look at the self-willed, stubborn head. A real Russian peasant’s head with a few faintly Asiatic lines. That man will try to overturn mountains. Perhaps he will be crushed by them. But he will never yield. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919), German revolutionary. repr. In Not By Politics Alone, ch. 4, ed. Tamara Deutsch (1973). Quoted in Zetkin, Reminiscences of Lenin (1929).
Remark to Klara Zetkin. |
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