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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

Vladimir Lenin

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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Creation Hell Listening Live Music Myself People Stupidity
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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Country Live Luxury Lying Oneself People
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
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Decision Oppression Politics
The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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Establishment Money Nation
Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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Capitalist Rope Sells
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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Achievement Country Glory Nation Need Reality Revolution
You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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Act Search Weapon Yourself
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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Intelligence Lost People
How can you make a revolution without executions?
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Death Revolution Yourself
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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Gratitude God Himself History Kill Mortal Soul Thankful
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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Desire Enemy Freedom Need Suicide Time Weapon
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
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Death One Liner Politics
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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Necessary Ourselves People Revolution War
The only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.
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Inspirational Mistake Oneself Writing
Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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Defeat Education Learning
Any cook should be able to run the country.
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Country Food Run
People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
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Freedom People Politics Stupidity Victim
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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Ability Art Audience Strong Truth
Trust is good, but control is better.
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Better Control Goodness One Liner Trust
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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Gold Necessary Ourselves Pursue Security
The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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Best Control Leadership Ourselves
Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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Communist Destroy
Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
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Oneself Peace
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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Democracy Injustice Oppression Rich
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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Freedom Honesty Hypocrisy Result Weakness
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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Atheist Force Heaven Promise Religion Resistance
We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
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Agreement Hate Language Writing

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