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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.

Vladimir Lenin

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
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.
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Gratitude God Himself History Kill Mortal Soul Thankful
Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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Liberty People Reality Weapon
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.
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Defeat Democracy Freedom Yourself
You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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Fire Heart Yourself
It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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Fear Necessary Preparation Secret
Any cook should be able to run the country.
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Country Food Run
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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Intelligence Lost People
Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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Capitalist Rope Sells
It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
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Abuse Easy Explanation
Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
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Build Establishment Home Problem
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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Leadership Men Oneself Weapon
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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Decision Oppression Politics
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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Greatness Mistake Thinking War
But I can’t listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Creation Hell Listening Live Music Myself People Stupidity
There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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Religious Terrible

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