Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
VLADIMIR LENINThe bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy’s cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Any cook should be able to run the country.
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Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.
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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 establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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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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The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
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Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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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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Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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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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One cannot live in society and be free from society.
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How can you make a revolution without executions?
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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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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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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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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy’s cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.
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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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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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