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.
VLADIMIR LENINWhen 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.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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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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It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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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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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
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Any cook should be able to run the country.
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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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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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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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Those who are opposed to armed uprising. Must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
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