It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
VLADIMIR LENINThere are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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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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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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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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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.
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We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.
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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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Trust is good, but control is better.
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We are not shooting enough professors.
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The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.
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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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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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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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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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