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Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.
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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'.
Vladimir Lenin
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But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop, the greater is the concentration of production and capital which gives rise to monopoly?
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All countries will inevitably have to do what Russia has done.
Vladimir Lenin -
Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.
Vladimir Lenin -
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.
Vladimir Lenin -
One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.
Vladimir Lenin -
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
Vladimir Lenin
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It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
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No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always spoken of agreement with them and of their gradual and voluntary transition to socialism.
Vladimir Lenin -
Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
Vladimir Lenin -
Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.
Vladimir Lenin -
For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.
Vladimir Lenin -
To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin.
Vladimir Lenin
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One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
Vladimir Lenin -
No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals; war on the rogues, the idlers and the rowdies!
Vladimir Lenin -
Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.
Vladimir Lenin -
The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and their solution.
Vladimir Lenin -
In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.
Vladimir Lenin -
The only one who doesn't make mistakes is the one who doesn't do anything.
Vladimir Lenin
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The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any form of superstition, reaction, or defence of bourgeois oppression. It is the legitimate successor to the best that man produced in the nineteenth century, as represented by German philosophy, English political economy and French socialism.
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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
Vladimir Lenin -
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
Vladimir Lenin -
Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.
Vladimir Lenin