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.
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 are not shooting enough professors.
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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism.
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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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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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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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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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Any cook should be able to run the country.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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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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Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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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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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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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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