Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
VLADIMIR LENINYou must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
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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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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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You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.
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You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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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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Any cook should be able to run the country.
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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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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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The goal of socialism is communism.
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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 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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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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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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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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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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The only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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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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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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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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Don’t be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.
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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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It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
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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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