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Vladimir Lenin
Age: 53 †
Born: 1870
Born: April 22
Died: 1924
Died: January 21
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No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.
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Ideological talk and phrase mongering about political liberties should be disposed with all that is just mere chatter and phrase mongering. We should get away from those phrases.
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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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Recovery proceeding excellently. Am sure that the crushing of the Kazan Czechs and whiteguards, as well as of the kulak extortioners supporting them, will be exemplarily ruthless.
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When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time one must always go forward--or go back
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All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.
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Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.
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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
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Peace, Land, and Bread! All power to the Soviet!
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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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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.
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We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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Man’s consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.
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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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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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We do not have time to play at oppositions at conferences. We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as nonparty, in prison.
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The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted - or rather tend to be corrupted - by the conditions of capitalism and betray a tendency to become bureaucrats, i.e., privileged persons divorced from the people and standing above the people.
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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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The Jewish bourgeoisie are our enemies, not as Jews but as bourgeoisie. The Jewish worker is our brother.
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