One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
VLADIMIR LENINIt is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not “in the name of capitalism,” but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.
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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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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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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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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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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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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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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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Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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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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Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
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Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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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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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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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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