We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
VLADIMIR LENINWe need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy’s cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.
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A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.
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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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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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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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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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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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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.
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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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