One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
VLADIMIR LENINOne 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.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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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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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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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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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.
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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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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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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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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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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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The only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.
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