We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
VLADIMIR LENINWe do not have time to play at “oppositions” at “conferences.” We will keep our political opponents,whether open or disguised as “nonparty,” in prison.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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But 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.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.
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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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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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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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How can you make a revolution without executions?
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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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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I don’t care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
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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.
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