It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
VLADIMIR LENINIt is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
VLADIMIR LENINAs an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
VLADIMIR LENINThose who are opposed to armed uprising. Must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
VLADIMIR LENINWhen 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.
VLADIMIR LENINThere are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
VLADIMIR LENINHonesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
VLADIMIR LENINOnly an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
VLADIMIR LENINCommunists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
VLADIMIR LENINOne cannot live in society and be free from society.
VLADIMIR LENINAutocracy 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.
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.
VLADIMIR LENINGive us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
VLADIMIR LENINSoviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
VLADIMIR LENINThe 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 LENINPacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
VLADIMIR LENINYou must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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