One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
VLADIMIR LENINGive me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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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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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 by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
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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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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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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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The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.
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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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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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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 establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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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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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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I don’t care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
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He who does not work shall not eat.
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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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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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Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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