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 LENINWe 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.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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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.
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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
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Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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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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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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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
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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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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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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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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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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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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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One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
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The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
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The goal of socialism is communism.
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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.
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Fascism is capitalism in decay.
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Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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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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