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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.

Vladimir Lenin

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.
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Democracy Oneself Organization Recognition Violence
Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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Army Police Power
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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Communist Creation Knowledge Mindset Yourself
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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Achievement Country Glory Nation Need Reality Revolution
Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
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Children Forever Himself Life Myself
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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Greatness Mistake Thinking War
Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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Art Important Movie
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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Justice Moral Politics
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.
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Gold Necessary Ourselves Pursue Security
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.
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Gratitude God Himself History Kill Mortal Soul Thankful
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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Deep Time
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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Decision Oppression Politics
He who does not work shall not eat.
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Eat Himself Work
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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Atheist Force Heaven Promise Religion Resistance
Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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Democracy Movement Revolution Theory
But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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Differences Littles May

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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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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