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.
VLADIMIR LENINDon’t be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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Fascism is capitalism in decay.
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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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Those who are opposed to armed uprising. Must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
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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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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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How can you make a revolution without executions?
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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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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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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.
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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 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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