Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Ideological talk and phrase mongering about political liberties should be disposed with; all that is just mere chatter and phrase mongering. We should get away from those phrases.
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The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party.
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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.
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A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines
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All contemporary religions and churches, all and every kind of religious organization, Marxism has always viewed as organs of bourgeois reaction, serving as a defense of exploitation and the doping of the working-classes.
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Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.
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The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.
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All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.
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Act with the greatest determination and on the offensive. The defensive is the death of every armed rising.
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Any cook should be able to run the country.
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It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.
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Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.
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Recovery proceeding excellently. Am sure that the crushing of the Kazan Czechs and whiteguards, as well as of the kulak extortioners supporting them, will be exemplarily ruthless.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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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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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.
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No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.
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Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.
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The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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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 working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.
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The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.