Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.
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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.
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No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.
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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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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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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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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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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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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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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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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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The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.
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The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.
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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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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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To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary- constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics.
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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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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.
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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.