Vladimir Lenin Quotes

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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…
• Three keys to success: read, read, read.
• Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
• Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
• 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…
• 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…
• Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
• Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and…
• We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as…
• But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from…
• For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.
• A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.
• Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
• If we can effectively kill the national pride and patriotism of just one generation, we will have won that country. Therefore, there must be continued…
• Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
• Destroy the family and you destroy society
• The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.
• The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.
• Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.
• Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.

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