Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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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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The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.
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No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.
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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 best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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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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A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.
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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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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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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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Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
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The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.
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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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For any truth, if “overdone” (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its actual applicability, can be reduced to an absurdity, and is even bound to become an absurdity under these conditions.
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Crime is a product of social excess.
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It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.
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Sometimes - history needs a push.
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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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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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Be as radical as Reality.