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 LENINCapitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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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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There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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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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Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.
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One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.
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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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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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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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The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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Three keys to success: read, read, read.
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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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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.
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The goal of socialism is communism.
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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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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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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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