But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
VLADIMIR LENINCommunists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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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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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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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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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 true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
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People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
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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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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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The goal of socialism is communism.
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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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Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.
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