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.
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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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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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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Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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The goal of socialism is communism.
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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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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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You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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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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But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.
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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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