Vladimir Lenin Quotes

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.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Authority Hands Himself Limitation Myself
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.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Change Food Men Myself Practice
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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Democracy Injustice Oppression Rich
Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Art Important Movie
You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Act Search Weapon Yourself
But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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Differences Littles May
Three keys to success: read, read, read.
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One Liner Reading Success
Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Oneself Peace
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.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Democracy Development Impossible Name Ourselves Path
There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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Religious Terrible
The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Himself Leadership People
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.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Ability Art Audience Strong Truth
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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Care Liberty Sarcastic True
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.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Army Oneself Victory
When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Gratitude God Himself History Kill Mortal Soul Thankful
Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Children Forever Himself Life Myself
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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Achievement Country Glory Nation Need Reality Revolution
As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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Control Mean Peace War World
Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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Defeat Education Learning
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
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Children Myself Teaching
You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.
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Communist Creation Knowledge Mindset Yourself
The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
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Control Media People
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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Determination Interest Nation Right
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Authority Himself Philsophy Poison Reality
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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Atheist Necessary Ourselves Practice Theory
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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Greatness Mistake Thinking War
Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Build Children Education Myself

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