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 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.
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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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Fascism is capitalism in decay.
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I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don’t eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.
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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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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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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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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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The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.
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It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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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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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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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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Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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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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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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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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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
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Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism.
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The goal of socialism is communism.
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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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