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.
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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Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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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 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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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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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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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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The goal of socialism is communism.
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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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It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.
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The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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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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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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Trust is good, but control is better.
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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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It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
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