Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
VLADIMIR LENINOnly 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.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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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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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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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 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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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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People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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Fascism is capitalism in decay.
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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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