Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
VLADIMIR LENINOne cannot live in society and be free from society.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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How can you make a revolution without executions?
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It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.
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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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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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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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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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Don’t be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.
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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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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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One cannot live in society and be free from society.
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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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There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
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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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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
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Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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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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