Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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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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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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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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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Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
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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.
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How can you make a revolution without executions?
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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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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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The only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.
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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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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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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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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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Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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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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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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We do not have time to play at “oppositions” at “conferences.” We will keep our political opponents,whether open or disguised as “nonparty,” in prison.
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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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One cannot live in society and be free from society.
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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.
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The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
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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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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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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