Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
VLADIMIR LENINGive us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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How can you make a revolution without executions?
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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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.
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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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The only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.
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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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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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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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The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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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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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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