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Political Quotes by Vladimir Lenin
- 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…
- The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.
- Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.
- People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out…
- 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.
- When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand to oppress more…
- Every question "runs in a vicious circle" because political life as a whole is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number of links. The…
- A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level…
- The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted -- or rather tend to be corrupted -- by the conditions of capitalism and…
- The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any…
- 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…
- History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.
- 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…
- This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of the Economists look…
- The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
- There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
- Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
- No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
- False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.
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