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 LENINFreedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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We do not have time to play at “oppositions” at “conferences.” We will keep our political opponents,whether open or disguised as “nonparty,” in prison.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
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Those who are opposed to armed uprising. Must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
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Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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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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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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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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Any cook should be able to run the country.
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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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