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 LENINThe best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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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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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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He who does not work shall not eat.
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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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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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We do not have time to play at “oppositions” at “conferences.” We will keep our political opponents,whether open or disguised as “nonparty,” in prison.
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Any cook should be able to run the country.
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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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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Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.
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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.
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Three keys to success: read, read, read.
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