The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
VLADIMIR LENINThere are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Trust is good, but control is better.
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Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.
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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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It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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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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He who does not work shall not eat.
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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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We are not shooting enough professors.
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Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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How can you make a revolution without executions?
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We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
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Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
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