Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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He who does not work shall not eat
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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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People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
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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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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy's cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.
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You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.
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Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.
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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.
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Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes).
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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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In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority.
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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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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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We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.
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We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these.
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Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
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Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations -- all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism.
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The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced countries and outdistance them, too, in economic matters.