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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

Don’t be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Defeat Democracy Freedom Yourself
Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Authority Hands Himself Limitation Myself
Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Art Important Movie
Any cook should be able to run the country.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Country Food Run
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.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Democracy Development Impossible Name Ourselves Path
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Freedom Honesty Hypocrisy Result Weakness
Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Build Establishment Home Problem
We are not shooting enough professors.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Death Enough Kill Teaching
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Democracy Injustice Oppression Rich
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Freedom History Slave
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.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Independent Ordinary People Politics Revolution
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
One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Oneself Reality
Trust is good, but control is better.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Better Control Goodness One Liner Trust
The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Control Media People
We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Necessary Ourselves People Revolution War

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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