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.
VLADIMIR LENINWhenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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Any cook should be able to run the country.
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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.
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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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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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How can you make a revolution without executions?
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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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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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Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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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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One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.
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