"Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract,……" — Vladimir Lenin
"Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class."
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Vladimir Lenin
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216 Quotes by Vladimir Lenin
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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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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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