The only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.
VLADIMIR LENINOnly an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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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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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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Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
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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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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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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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Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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