Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
VLADIMIR LENINOne cannot live in society and be free from society.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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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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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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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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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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Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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The only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.
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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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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.
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