It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
Vladimir LeninRead
Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
Interpretation
Lenin emphasizes the crucial role of medicine in a socialist society.
This quote reflects Vladimir Lenin's belief that a robust healthcare system is fundamental to the social and economic structure of socialism. He suggests that without a strong emphasis on medicine and healthcare, the entire socialist framework could collapse, highlighting the importance of health as a cornerstone for societal well-being and equality.
In practice
During a lecture on socialist policies, one could use this quote to emphasize the importance of healthcare.
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.
A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.
We are not utopians, we do not βdreamβ of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon incomprehension of the tasks of the proletarian dictatorship, are totally alien to Marxism, and, as a matter of fact, serve only to postpone the socialist revolution until people are different. No, we want the socialist revolution with people as they are now, with people who cannot dispense with subordination, control, and "foremen and accountants".
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
Non-African missionaries, responding generously to the Lord's call with ardent apostolic zeal, came to share the joy of revelation. Following in their footsteps, Africans are today missionaries on other continents.
At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical. The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful.
Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest.
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.
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