Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Every question "runs in a vicious circle" because political life as a whole is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number of links. The whole art of politics lies in finding and taking as firm a grip as we can of the link that is least likely to be struck from our hands, the one that is most important at the given moment, the one that most of all guarantees its possessor the possession of the whole chain.
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No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.
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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.
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It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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Be as radical as Reality.
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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.
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It is not national interests we are upholding - we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank higher than national interests, higher than the interests of the state. We are defenders of the socialist fatherland.
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People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.
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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.
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Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited.
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The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.
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People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
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Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
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Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.
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The Bolshevik slogans and ideas on the whole have been confirmed by history; but concretely things have worked out differently; they are more original, more peculiar, more varied than anyone could have expected.
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Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people.
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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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We set ourselves the ultimate aim of abolishing the state, i.e., all organized and systematic violence, all use of violence against people in general.
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Sometimes - history needs a push.
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When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.