Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
Quotes & Thinkers from Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
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"It is not our immediate task to “introduce” socialism, but only to bring social production and the distribution of products at once under the control of the Soviets of Workers’ Deputies."
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Vladimir Lenin
Politics
anti-imperialism
1870–1924
"It is not our immediate task to “introduce” socialism, but only to bring social production and the distribution of products at once under the control of the Soviets of Workers’ Deputies."
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Leon Trotsky
Politics
Marxism
1879–1940
"Every revolutionary party finds its chief support in the younger generation of the rising class. Political decay expresses itself in a loss of ability to attract youth."
142 quotes
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Literature
1918–2008
"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice."
59 quotes
Isaac Asimov
Science
1920–1992
"A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws."
243 quotes
Marc Chagall
Art
Catalan modernism
1887–1985
"Only a child had its place on the cross, and that was enough for me .. ..in the exact sense there was no cross but a blue child in the air. The cross interested me less."
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"In such circumstances, in view of the incredibly widespread nature of the distortions of Marxism, our first task is to restore the true doctrine of Marx on the state."
— Vladimir Lenin, b. 1870View →
"Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by the use of violence by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws."
— Vladimir Lenin, b. 1870View →
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"
— Vladimir Lenin, b. 1870View →
"Rectilinearity and one-sidedness, woodenness and petrification, subjectivism and subjective blindness — voilà the epistemological roots of idealism."
— Vladimir Lenin, b. 1870View →
"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice."
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, b. 1918View →