People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
VLADIMIR LENINWe do not have time to play at “oppositions” at “conferences.” We will keep our political opponents,whether open or disguised as “nonparty,” in prison.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.
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We 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.
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The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
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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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Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.
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The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.
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We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.
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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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But I can’t listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.
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The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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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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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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