One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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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We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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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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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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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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One cannot live in society and be free from society.
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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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Trust is good, but control is better.
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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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We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not “in the name of capitalism,” but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.
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Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
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You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.
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No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.
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