We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
VLADIMIR LENINI am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don’t eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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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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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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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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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.
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He who does not work shall not eat.
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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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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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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 us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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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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