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 LENINThere are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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I don’t care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
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There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
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The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.
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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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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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Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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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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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.
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It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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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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