People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
VLADIMIR LENINThe way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.
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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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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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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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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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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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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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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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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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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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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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Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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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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Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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Three keys to success: read, read, read.
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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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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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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How can you make a revolution without executions?
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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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It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
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You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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