Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
VLADIMIR LENINOne cannot live in society and be free from society.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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The goal of socialism is communism.
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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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He who does not work shall not eat.
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.
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Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
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There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
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The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.
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The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.
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I don’t care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
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Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.
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We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not “in the name of capitalism,” but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.
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It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.
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When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.
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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
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America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism.
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