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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• The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

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• Sometimes – history needs a push.

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• A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

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• One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

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

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• It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

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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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• If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

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• If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

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• Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

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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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