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Politics Quotes by Vladimir Lenin
- One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent…
- 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…
- Any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may possess,…
- 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…
- There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
- To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
- Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
- Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.
- Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.
- Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
- People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
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