Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
VLADIMIR LENINThere are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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We are not shooting enough professors.
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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.
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We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.
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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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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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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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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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Fascism is capitalism in decay.
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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We 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.
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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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