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Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.

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Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.

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In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.

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Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

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The masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the old regime. Only the guiding layers of a class have a political program, and even this still requires the test of events and the approval of the masses.

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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Revolutionary

Born: October 26th, 1879

Died: August 21st, 1940

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