I don’t care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
VLADIMIR LENINOnly an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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Three keys to success: read, read, read.
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The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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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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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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Trust is good, but control is better.
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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
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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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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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Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
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He who does not work shall not eat.
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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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We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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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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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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Those who are opposed to armed uprising. Must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
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One cannot live in society and be free from society.
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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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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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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
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The only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.
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No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.
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Any cook should be able to run the country.
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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