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Vladimir Lenin
Age: 53 †
Born: 1870
Born: April 22
Died: 1924
Died: January 21
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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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Crime is a product of social excess.
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International unity of the workers is more important than the national.
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We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.
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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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Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
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Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.
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In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.
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Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.
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Any cook should be able to run the country.
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A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines
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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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Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror.
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Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
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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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The working class must break up, smash the ready-made state machinery, and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.
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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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A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery.
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Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in the last analysis reflects the tendencies and ideology of the antagonistic classes in modern society.
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