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Vladimir Lenin
Age: 53 †
Born: 1870
Born: April 22
Died: 1924
Died: January 21
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A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.
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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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The whole struggle of our Party (and of the working class movement in Europe generally) must be directed against opportunism. The latter is not a current of opinion, not a tendency it (opportunism) has now become the organised tool of the bourgeoisie within the working class movement.
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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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Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
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The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.
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The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavour to keep them disunited.
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To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin.
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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people.
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The Bolshevik slogans and ideas on the whole have been confirmed by history but concretely things have worked out differently they are more original, more peculiar, more varied than anyone could have expected.
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For any truth, if “overdone” (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its actual applicability, can be reduced to an absurdity, and is even bound to become an absurdity under these conditions.
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Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.
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Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.
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Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
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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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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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Honesty in politics is the result of strength hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
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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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