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.
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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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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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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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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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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The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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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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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.
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I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don’t eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.
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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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One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.
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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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When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.
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Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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