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Vladimir Lenin was a Russian revolutionary, politician, Marxist theorist, and one of the founders of the Soviet Union. He played a crucial role in the Russian Revolution, leading the October Revolution of 1917, which overthrew the Tsarist regime and established the Soviet power. Lenin's ideas and theories had a profound impact on international politics in the 20th century.

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“The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any form of superstition, reaction, or defence of bourgeois oppression. It is the legitimate successor to the best that man produced in the nineteenth century, as represented by German philosophy, English political economy and French socialism.”

Source: Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh

“Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.”

People Men Known Rich Failing Hundred Fewer Rich Man Bloodsuckers

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“One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.”

Men Asks Hours Answers Wise Minutes Fool

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“The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and their solution.”

Men Process Movement Eternal Solutions Reflection Understood Contradiction

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“Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?”

Men Should Believe Ideas Government Opinion Speech Weapons Gun Presses Opposition Freedom Of Speech Printing Freedom Of The Press Pernicious Printing Press Lethal Weapon

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“One man with a gun can control 100 without one.”

Men Leader Gun Socialism Manipulation One Man Dictator Gun Control Self Defense Collectivism Bearing Arms Pro Gun Gun Safety Pro Gun Control

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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.”

Men Self Business Sacrifice Capable Capitalism Capitalist Lifting Self Sacrifice Bootstraps

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

Men Found Arms Mass Gun One Man Execution Second Ammendment

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“Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.”

Men Action Time Century Selfless Greatest Man

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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.”

Men Self Moral Self Improvement Meat Wicked Rice Purification Wicked Man

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“The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.”

Men Doe States Seems Moving Force Wish Car Function Historical Wheels

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“Our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man by man and nation by nation, will inevitably eliminate the very possibility of war.”

Men War Nations Class Achieve Mankind Possibility Aim Division Exploitation Socialist Eliminating

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“Man’s consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.”

Men World Consciousness Objectives

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About the Author

Born: April 22, 1870
Died: January 21, 1924
Known for: Revolutionary
Quotes: 262

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Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh TomakhRelated source material

Lenin on Literature and ArtRelated source material

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A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist EconomismRelated source material

Bolshevism and the Russian RevolutionRelated source material

Collected Works, Volume 26: September 1917-February 1918Related source material

Collected Works, Volume 34: Letters, November 1895-November 1911Related source material

Essential Works of Lenin: "What Is to Be Done?" and Other WritingsRelated source material

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