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.
VLADIMIR LENINPacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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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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You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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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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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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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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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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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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The goal of socialism is communism.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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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 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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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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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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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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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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One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.
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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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We 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.
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The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
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I don’t care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
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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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Three keys to success: read, read, read.
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