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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

Vladimir Lenin

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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Communist Creation Knowledge Mindset Yourself
There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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Religious Terrible
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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Democracy Injustice Oppression Rich
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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Care Myself Revolution Road World
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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Democracy Development Impossible Name Ourselves Path
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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Deep Time
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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Kind Man Nation Present Togetherness
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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Atheist Necessary Ourselves Practice Theory
Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
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Oneself Peace
You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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Fire Heart Yourself
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
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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Ability Education Mindset Power Struggle
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
Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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Build Children Education Myself
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
How can you make a revolution without executions?
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Death Revolution Yourself
We are not shooting enough professors.
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Death Enough Kill Teaching
Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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Art Important Movie
The only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.
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Inspirational Mistake Oneself Writing
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
The goal of socialism is communism.
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Goal One Liner
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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Freedom History Slave
Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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Democracy Liberty One Liner
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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Leadership Men Oneself Weapon
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
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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Justice Moral Politics
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

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