There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
VLADIMIR LENINAny cook should be able to run the country.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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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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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
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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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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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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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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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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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