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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.

Vladimir Lenin

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.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Greatness Mistake Thinking War
Trust is good, but control is better.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Better Control Goodness One Liner Trust
The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Himself Leadership People
Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Philosophy Truth Worth
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Achievement Country Glory Nation Need Reality Revolution
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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Care Liberty Sarcastic True
You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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Revolution White Yourself
The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Best Control Leadership Ourselves
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.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Democracy Development Impossible Name Ourselves Path
Three keys to success: read, read, read.
VLADIMIR LENIN

One Liner Reading Success
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.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Authority Hands Himself Limitation Myself
Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Liberty People Reality Weapon
Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Army Police Power
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Intelligence Lost People
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.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Democracy Development Limitation Oneself
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 LENIN

Necessary Ourselves People Revolution War

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