Corrupt Leaders of China and Russia from the Past in Quotes

"People say that poverty is bad, but in fact poverty is good. The poorer people are, the more revolutionary they are. It is dreadful to imagine a time when everyone will be rich... From a surplus of calories people will have two heads and four legs." -Mao Zedong

"When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill." -Mao Zedong

"Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world." -Vladimir Lenin

"No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals; war on the rogues, the idlers and the rowdies!" -Vladimir Lenin

"We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us." -Vladimir Lenin

Worldviews do matter.

Ideas do have consequences.

That's what the real battle over who sits at the helm of any nation, including our nation, (or our states, or our school boards, etc.) is all about.

That's why we need to know the worldviews, of leaders so that we understand the consequences of their 'promises.'

Proverbs 13:14 says "The discerning heart seeks knowledge." We need to be diligent to seek out the Truth, let that shape our worldview, and then live it out personally and in the public square.

It matters. It really does matter.