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.
VLADIMIR LENINAuthority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.
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Three keys to success: read, read, read.
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Trust is good, but control is better.
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Any cook should be able to run the country.
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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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The only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.
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The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
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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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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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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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Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
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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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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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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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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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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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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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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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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.
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