Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.
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We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.
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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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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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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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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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False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.
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For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.
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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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We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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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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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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Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.
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Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.
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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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Three keys to success: read, read, read.
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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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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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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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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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Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?