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 LENINOne must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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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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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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One cannot live in society and be free from society.
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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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Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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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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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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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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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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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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