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.
VLADIMIR LENINBut I can’t listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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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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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.
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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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Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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How can you make a revolution without executions?
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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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