There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
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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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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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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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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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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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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It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
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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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One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
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The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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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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