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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.

Vladimir Lenin

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 LENIN

Atheist Force Heaven Promise Religion Resistance
We do not have time to play at “oppositions” at “conferences.” We will keep our political opponents,whether open or disguised as “nonparty,” in prison.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Play Politics Prison Time
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Achievement Country Glory Nation Need Reality Revolution
Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Army Police Power
You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Fire Heart Yourself
No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Determination Interest Nation Right
Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Build Children Education Myself
Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Generation Myself Transformation World Youth
You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Revolution White Yourself
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 LENIN

Gratitude God Himself History Kill Mortal Soul Thankful
There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Religious Terrible
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.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Ability Education Mindset Power Struggle
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Care Liberty Sarcastic True
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.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Gold Necessary Ourselves Pursue Security
As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Control Mean Peace War World
One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Fools Funny Oneself Wisdom

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