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.
VLADIMIR LENINWhenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.
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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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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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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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Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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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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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 an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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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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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism.
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When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.
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