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.
VLADIMIR LENINBut 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.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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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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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.
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Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
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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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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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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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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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Trust is good, but control is better.
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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
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Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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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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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
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We are not shooting enough professors.
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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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How can you make a revolution without executions?
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Only 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.
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Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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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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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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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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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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