The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
VLADIMIR LENINWe Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not “in the name of capitalism,” but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
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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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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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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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It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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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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Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.
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How can you make a revolution without executions?
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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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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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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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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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