Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
VLADIMIR LENINWithout revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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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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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.
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Three keys to success: read, read, read.
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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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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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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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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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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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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 best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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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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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 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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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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Trust is good, but control is better.
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But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.
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Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.
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