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.
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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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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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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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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He who does not work shall not eat.
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We are not shooting enough professors.
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Three keys to success: read, read, read.
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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.
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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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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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Those who are opposed to armed uprising. Must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
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We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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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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The goal of socialism is communism.
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