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.
VLADIMIR LENINWe would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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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 are not shooting enough professors.
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Trust is good, but control is better.
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One cannot live in society and be free from society.
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Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.
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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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It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
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Don’t be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.
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The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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