Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
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I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
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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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Perfect definition of atheist dogma. Your mind has been subjected to subtle mental conditioning year after year. Now the atheist lie has become the truth to you. A lie that can be blown away with the real truth. It just takes time to unwind the atheist mental conditioning. The truth is out there. Outside of atheist dogma lies the truth!
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Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.
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A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery.
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Peace, Land, and Bread! All power to the Soviet!
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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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Those who are really convinced that they have made progress in science would not demand freedom for the new views to continue side by side with the old, but the substitution of the new views for the old.
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For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.
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False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.
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We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures had met the needs of the poor peasants, would there have been unrest among the peasant masses?
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Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
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The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.
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Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.
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Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.
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Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.
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Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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Three keys to success: read, read, read.
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If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.
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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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Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands.