One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.
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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The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
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Trust is good, but control is better.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.
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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
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The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.
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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.
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How can you make a revolution without executions?
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Three keys to success: read, read, read.
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