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.
VLADIMIR LENINFreedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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We do not have time to play at “oppositions” at “conferences.” We will keep our political opponents,whether open or disguised as “nonparty,” in prison.
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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.
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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 act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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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 man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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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.
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There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
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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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The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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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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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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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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