Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
VLADIMIR LENINAuthority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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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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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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Fascism is capitalism in decay.
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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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Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
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Trust is good, but control is better.
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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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Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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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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When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.
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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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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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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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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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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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The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.
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One cannot live in society and be free from society.
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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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The only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.
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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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We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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Any cook should be able to run the country.
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I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don’t eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.
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