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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Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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Fascism is capitalism in decay.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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One cannot live in society and be free from society.
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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
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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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Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.
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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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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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Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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Those who are opposed to armed uprising. Must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
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