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.
VLADIMIR LENINTrust is good, but control is better.
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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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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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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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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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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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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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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How can you make a revolution without executions?
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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 press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
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The goal of socialism is communism.
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Three keys to success: read, read, read.
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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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