Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.
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Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.
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You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.
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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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People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
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When we are victorious on a world scale I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in the streets of some of the largest cities of the world.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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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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I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organisations in particular, might be summed up in a single word: learn.
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Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when the working people themselves take power in their hands the ruling classes resort to unheard-of crimes and shootings if it is a matter of protecting their money-bags.
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Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.
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Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.
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One must not count in thousands, like the propagandist belonging to a small group that has not yet given leadership to the masses; in these circumstances one must count in millions and tens of millions.
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You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action. A plenary meeting of the Soviet must be called to decide on mass searches in Petrograd and the goods stations. To carry out these searches, each factory and company must form contingents, not on a voluntary basis: it must be the duty of everyone to take part in these searches under the threat of being deprived of his bread card. We can't expect to get anywhere unless we resort to terrorism: speculators must be shot on the spot. Moreover, bandits must be dealt with just as resolutely: they must be shot on the spot.
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Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.
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The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.
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Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.
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War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished.
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The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.
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Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.
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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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All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all.
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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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I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
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Fascism is capitalism in decay.
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Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.
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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 the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.
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