People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
VLADIMIR LENINAutocracy 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.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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Any cook should be able to run the country.
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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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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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The only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.
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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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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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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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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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When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.
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You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.
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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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