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State Quotes by Vladimir Lenin
- 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…
- For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.
- The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive…
- Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
- Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
- We set ourselves the ultimate aim of abolishing the state, i.e., all organized and systematic violence, all use of violence against people in general.
- The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.
- Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but, on the other…
- When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.
- Every cook must learn to rule the State.
- It is not national interests we are upholding -- we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank higher than national…
- Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.
- Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything, can form an…
- While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
- When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.
More State Quotes
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
- We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. — Mahmoud Abbas
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila