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.
VLADIMIR LENINPeople always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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The goal of socialism is communism.
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He who does not work shall not eat.
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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
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The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.
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We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not “in the name of capitalism,” but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.
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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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You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.
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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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Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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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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Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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