The only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.
VLADIMIR LENINThe oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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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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When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.
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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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Three keys to success: read, read, read.
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He who does not work shall not eat.
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The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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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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Trust is good, but control is better.
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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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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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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.
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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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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.
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Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
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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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You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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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 a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
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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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