The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
VLADIMIR LENINBut every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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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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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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Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
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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 oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
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But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.
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Trust is good, but control is better.
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The goal of socialism is communism.
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It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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One cannot live in society and be free from society.
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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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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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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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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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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.
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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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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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You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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How can you make a revolution without executions?
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