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We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.

Vladimir Lenin

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.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Greatness Mistake Thinking War
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.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Authority Hands Himself Limitation Myself
Don’t be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Defeat Democracy Freedom Yourself
As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Control Mean Peace War World
Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Build Establishment Home Problem
Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Athiest Necessary Ourselves
You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Communist Creation Knowledge Mindset Yourself
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
Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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Democracy Movement Revolution Theory
It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
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Abuse Easy Explanation
There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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Religious Terrible
The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Best Control Leadership Ourselves
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Destruction Law Politics Way
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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Achievement Country Glory Nation Need Reality Revolution
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 LENIN

Creation Hell Listening Live Music Myself People Stupidity
Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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Art Important Movie
The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
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Control Media People
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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Leadership Men Oneself Weapon
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Justice Moral Politics
One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
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Fools Funny Oneself Wisdom
The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
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Himself Leadership People
The goal of socialism is communism.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Goal One Liner
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Decision Oppression Politics
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Death One Liner Politics
Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Freedom Himself Restriction Writing
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Deep Time
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.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Ability Art Audience Strong Truth

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