One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
VLADIMIR LENINComrade 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.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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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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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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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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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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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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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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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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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 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.
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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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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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