You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
VLADIMIR LENINWe 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.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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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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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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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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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
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You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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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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Three keys to success: read, read, read.
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America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism.
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People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
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The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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