The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
VLADIMIR LENINOne must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not “in the name of capitalism,” but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.
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A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.
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Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
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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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Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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Trust is good, but control is better.
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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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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.
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The only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.
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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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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 oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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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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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 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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Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.
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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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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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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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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
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