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.
VLADIMIR LENINNo Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.
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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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Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.
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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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Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
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The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
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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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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy’s cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.
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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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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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Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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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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