But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.
VLADIMIR LENINOnly struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.
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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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Don’t be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.
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The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
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It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
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Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.
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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.
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The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.
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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy’s cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.
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Any cook should be able to run the country.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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