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.
VLADIMIR LENINDemocracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
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The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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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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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
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How can you make a revolution without executions?
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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy’s cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.
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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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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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