One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.
VLADIMIR LENINOf all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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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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Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
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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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We do not have time to play at “oppositions” at “conferences.” We will keep our political opponents,whether open or disguised as “nonparty,” in prison.
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The goal of socialism is communism.
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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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But I can’t listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.
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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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He who does not work shall not eat.
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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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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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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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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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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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Trust is good, but control is better.
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The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.
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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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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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Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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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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Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.
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It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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