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.
VLADIMIR LENINIt 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.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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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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When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.
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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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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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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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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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One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
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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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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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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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Those who are opposed to armed uprising. Must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
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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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