The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
VLADIMIR LENINWhenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.
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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.
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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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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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There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
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One cannot live in society and be free from society.
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Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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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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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
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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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