There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
VLADIMIR LENINOne must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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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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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
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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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You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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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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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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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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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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One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
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Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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One cannot live in society and be free from society.
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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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