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.
VLADIMIR LENINTruth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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Any cook should be able to run the country.
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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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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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We are not shooting enough professors.
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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.
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He who does not work shall not eat.
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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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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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One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.
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