One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
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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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
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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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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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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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We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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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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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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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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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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