A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.
VLADIMIR LENINOnly an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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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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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.
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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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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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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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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.
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The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.
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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.
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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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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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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
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