There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
VLADIMIR LENINThe true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.
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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 must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
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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 control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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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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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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The only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.
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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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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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Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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