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.
VLADIMIR LENINDemocracy is indispensable to socialism.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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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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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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People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
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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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Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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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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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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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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Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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