Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
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One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.
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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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Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.
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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.
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But I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.
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We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon incomprehension of the tasks of the proletarian dictatorship, are totally alien to Marxism, and, as a matter of fact, serve only to postpone the socialist revolution until people are different. No, we want the socialist revolution with people as they are now, with people who cannot dispense with subordination, control, and "foremen and accountants".
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There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
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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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The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of petty-bourgeois Anarchism. And the struggle against these elements cannot be waged with propaganda and agitation alone. ... The struggle must also be waged by applying force and compulsion.
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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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Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but, on the other hand, it signifies the formal recognition of equality of citizens, the equal right of all to determine the structure of, and to administer, the state.
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Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.
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Fascism is capitalism in decay.
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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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The goal of socialism is communism.
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Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.
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In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.
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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.
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It is necessary to be able to withstand all this, to agree to any and every sacrifice, and even - if need be - to resort to all sorts of stratagems, manoeuvres and illegal methods, to evasion and subterfuges in order to penetrate the trade unions, to remain in them, and to carry on Communist work in them at all costs.
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To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin.