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.
VLADIMIR LENINThe oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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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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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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The only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.
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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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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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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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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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Trust is good, but control is better.
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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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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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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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