It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
VLADIMIR LENINWhen 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.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.
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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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Three keys to success: read, read, read.
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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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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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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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It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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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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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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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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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
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