Vladimir Lenin Short Quotes

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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

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Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

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One cannot live in society and be free from society.

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History is moving in zig-zags and by roundabout ways.

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We shall now proceed to construct the socialist order.

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Sensation is a subjective image of the objective world.

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It is in prison … that one becomes a real revolutionary.

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No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.

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

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We stand for an alliance with all countries without exception.

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All countries will inevitably have to do what Russia has done.

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The capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them.

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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.

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

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Political institutions are a superstructure on the economic foundation.

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International unity of the workers is more important than the national.

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A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines

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We must now set about building a proletarian socialist state in Russia.

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For the state to wither away completely, complete communism is necessary.

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Man's consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.

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… prepare eveything to burn Baku to the ground, if there is an attack…

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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.

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Communism equals Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.

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It is true that liberty is precious — so precious that it must be rationed.

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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

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I absolutely do not pretend in the slightest fashion to knowledge of military science.

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The Bolsheviks will do everything to secure this peaceful development of the revolution.

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Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.

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Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

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