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.
VLADIMIR LENINNo amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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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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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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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 me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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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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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.
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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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I don’t care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
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No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.
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You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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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.
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