Vladimir Lenin Quotes

• A good man fallen among Fabians.

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• We will now proceed to the building of socialism.

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• I greet you as the advance guard of the world proletarian army. The hour is not far off when…the German people will turn their weapons against their capitalist exploiters. The sun of the socialist revolution has already risen.

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• A small, compact core, consisting of reliable, experienced and hardened workers, with responsible agents…connected by all the rules of strict secrecy with the organisations of revolutionists, can, with the wide support of the masses and without an elaborate set of rules, perform all the functions of a trade union.

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  The important thing is not talking about the revolution, the important thing is making it.

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

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• Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

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• Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

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• Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

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  No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

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  One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

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  Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

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• The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

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• Crime is a product of social excess.

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• Sometimes – history needs a push.

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• There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

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• It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

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• A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

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• The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.

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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.

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Vladimir Lenin (43)

Birth:	22nd April, 1870
Death:	21st January, 1924
Nationality:	Russian
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician, Revolutionary

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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist who served as the leader of the Russian SFSR from 1917, and then concurrently as Premier of the Soviet Union from 1922, until 1924.

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