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.
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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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.
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The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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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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Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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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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The only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.
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One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.
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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.
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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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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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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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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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The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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We are not shooting enough professors.
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