Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
VLADIMIR LENINThe 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.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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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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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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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.
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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.
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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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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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We do not have time to play at “oppositions” at “conferences.” We will keep our political opponents,whether open or disguised as “nonparty,” in prison.
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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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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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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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