You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
VLADIMIR LENINGive me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
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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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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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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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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Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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He who does not work shall not eat.
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There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
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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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Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
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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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The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.
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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.
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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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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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Trust is good, but control is better.
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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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We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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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.
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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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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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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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No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.
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