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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

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Destruction Law Politics Way
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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Atheist Force Heaven Promise Religion Resistance
It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
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Abuse Easy Explanation
Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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Army Police Power
Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Democracy Movement Revolution Theory
You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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Revolution White Yourself
The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.
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Easy Enemy Possible Sound Strategy
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

Justice Moral Politics
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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Achievement Country Glory Nation Need Reality Revolution
But I can’t listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Creation Hell Listening Live Music Myself People Stupidity
You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Communist Creation Knowledge Mindset Yourself
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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Greatness Mistake Thinking War
We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
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Agreement Hate Language Writing
The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Kind Man Nation Present Togetherness
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
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
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Children Myself Teaching

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