You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
VLADIMIR LENINOnly by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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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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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism.
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Any cook should be able to run the country.
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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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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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Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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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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But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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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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We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
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The only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.
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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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People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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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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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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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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We 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.
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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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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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