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 LENINWe must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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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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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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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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One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.
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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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We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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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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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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