How can you make a revolution without executions?
VLADIMIR LENINWhenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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He who does not work shall not eat.
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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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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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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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Trust is good, but control is better.
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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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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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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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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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The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
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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.
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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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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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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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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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