Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
VLADIMIR LENINThe 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.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
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Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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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.
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One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.
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We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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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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The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.
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Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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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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Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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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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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
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