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• You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

  Vladimir Lenin

  White, Gloves, Revolution

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• But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Differences, May, Littles

  Vladimir Il'ich Lenin (1975). “Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh”

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• I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Men, Self, Wicked

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• The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy's cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Suicide, Class, Giving

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• One cannot live in society and be free from society.

  Vladimir Lenin

  V. I. Lenin (2008). “Lenin on Literature and Art”, p.25, Wildside Press LLC

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• But I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Nice, Stupid, People

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• Perfect definition of atheist dogma. Your mind has been subjected to subtle mental conditioning year after year. Now the atheist lie has become the truth to you. A lie that can be blown away with the real truth. It just takes time to unwind the atheist mental conditioning. The truth is out there. Outside of atheist dogma lies the truth!

  Vladimir Lenin

  Atheist, Real, Lying

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• The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.

  Vladimir Lenin

  People, Leader, Fountain

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• During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Lying, Class, Names

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• Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Democracy, Minorities, Rich

  "Collected Works" by Vladimir Lenin, vol. 25, 1993.

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• 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 the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Religious, Self, Class

  Vladimir Il'ich Lenin (1975). “Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh”

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• When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Time, Freedom Of Speech, Revolution

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• Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations -- all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Powerful, Numbers, Oligarchy

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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.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Struggle, Class, Mind

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• When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he
  is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.

  Vladimir Lenin

  History, Soul, Thank God

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• Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Democracy, Movement, Revolutionary

  Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (2012). “Essential Works of Lenin: "What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom, Political, Hungry

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• Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Business, Sacrifice, Men

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• Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Determined, Kind, Revolutionary

  "Lenin: Life and Legacy" by Dmitri Volkogonov, (p. 203), 1994.

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• Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom, Democracy, Done

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• The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Blow, Government, Cost

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• It is not national interests we are upholding - we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank higher than national interests, higher than the interests of the state. We are defenders of the socialist fatherland.

  Vladimir Lenin

  World, Socialism, States

  Address to the Party Central Committee on May 14, 1918. Collected Works, Volume 27, pp. 365-381,

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• Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Revolutionary, Cold War, Nations

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• Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Promise, Democracy, Phrases

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• Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Tasks, Attention, Levels

  Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, V. I. Lenin (1927). “Collected works of V. I. Lenin”

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