One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.
VLADIMIR LENINWhenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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We are not shooting enough professors.
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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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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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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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Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
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But I can’t listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.
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Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
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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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It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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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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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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