Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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Man’s consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.
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Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
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Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
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We are not shooting enough professors.
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Sometimes quantity has a quality all its own.
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Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on
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The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation of that labour. But both these facts manifest themselves in extremely diverse processes in different branches of the national economy.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.
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It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
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I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
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The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavour to keep them disunited.
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The Bolshevik slogans and ideas on the whole have been confirmed by history; but concretely things have worked out differently; they are more original, more peculiar, more varied than anyone could have expected.
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Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. You must make example of these people. (1) Hang (I mean hang publicly, so that people see it) at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known bloodsuckers. (2) Publish their names. (3) Seize all their grain. (4) Single out the hostages per my instructions in yesterday's telegram. Do all this so that for miles around people see it all, understand it, tremble, and tell themselves that we are killing the bloodthirsty kulaks and that we will continue to do so ...Find tougher people.
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Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in the last analysis reflects the tendencies and ideology of the antagonistic classes in modern society.
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Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.
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Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
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When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.
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Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
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One must not count in thousands, like the propagandist belonging to a small group that has not yet given leadership to the masses; in these circumstances one must count in millions and tens of millions.