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.
VLADIMIR LENINIt is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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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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No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.
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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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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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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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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.
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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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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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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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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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Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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