Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
VLADIMIR LENINDemocracy is indispensable to socialism.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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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.
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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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One cannot live in society and be free from society.
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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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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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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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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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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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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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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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