Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
VLADIMIR LENINThe oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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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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Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.
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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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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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The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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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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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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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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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
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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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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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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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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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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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He who does not work shall not eat.
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