Those who are opposed to armed uprising. Must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
VLADIMIR LENINBut 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.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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We are not shooting enough professors.
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The goal of socialism is communism.
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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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Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.
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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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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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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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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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People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
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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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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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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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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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