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.
VLADIMIR LENINYou cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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I don’t care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
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Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.
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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
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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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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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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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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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One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
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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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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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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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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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