Vladimir Lenin Quotes

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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Easy Enemy Possible Sound Strategy
We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
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Agreement Hate Language Writing
Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.
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Atheist Force Heaven Promise Religion Resistance
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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Desire Enemy Freedom Need Suicide Time Weapon
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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Best Destroy Money
Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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Liberty People Reality Weapon
Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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Atheist Pieces
Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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Athiest Necessary Ourselves
One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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Oneself Reality
How can you make a revolution without executions?
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Death Revolution Yourself
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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Democracy Oneself Organization Recognition Violence
Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
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Build Establishment Home Problem
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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Gold Necessary Ourselves Pursue Security
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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Play Politics Prison Time
Trust is good, but control is better.
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Better Control Goodness One Liner Trust
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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Necessary Ourselves People Revolution War
You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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Fire Heart Yourself
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
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Decision Oppression Politics
Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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Philosophy Truth Worth
Don’t be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.
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Defeat Democracy Freedom Yourself
Those who are opposed to armed uprising. Must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
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Army Coward Enemy Rise
Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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Freedom Himself Restriction Writing
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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Freedom Honesty Hypocrisy Result Weakness
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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Creation Hell Listening Live Music Myself People Stupidity
One cannot live in society and be free from society.
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Freedom Impossible Live Oneself
The goal of socialism is communism.
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Goal One Liner
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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Democracy Development Limitation Oneself

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