Ifs Quotes by Vladimir Lenin

10 Ifs quotes by Vladimir Lenin

Lenin’s incisive style makes even a handful of “if” statements feel charged with urgency. This small set captures his focus on how imagined scenarios can fuel decisive action, offering a concise look at his strategic mindset.

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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.

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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.

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All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound…

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We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war…

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If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world…

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An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois…

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Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures…

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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,…

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We must not depict socialism as if socialists will bring it to us on a plate all nicely dressed. That will never…

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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…

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Our power does not know liberty or justice. It is established on the destruction of the individual will.

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Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

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“Private property based on the labour of the small proprietor, free competition, democracy, i.e., all the catchwords with which the capitalists and their press…

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