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.
VLADIMIR LENINIt 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.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.
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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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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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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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I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don’t eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.
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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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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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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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