"For any truth, if overdone ... if exaggerated,……" — Vladimir Lenin
"For any truth, if overdone ... if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity."
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Vladimir Lenin
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216 Quotes by Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin has 216 quotes on this site.
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A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for…
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Three keys to success: read, read, read.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we…
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Ideological talk and phrase mongering about political liberties should be disposed with; all that is just mere chatter and phrase…
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Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
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Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force,…
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We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate,…
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But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in…
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For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.
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A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of…
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This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of…
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of…
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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out…
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
— Albert Camus
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Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe…
— Albert Camus
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by…
— Norman Angell
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When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and…
— Sigmund Freud
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Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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