We do not have time to play at “oppositions” at “conferences.” We will keep our political opponents,whether open or disguised as “nonparty,” in prison.
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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Any cook should be able to run the country.
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The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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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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Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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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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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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The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
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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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We are not shooting enough professors.
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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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How can you make a revolution without executions?
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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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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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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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