Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
VLADIMIR LENINWe 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.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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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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The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
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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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One cannot live in society and be free from society.
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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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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.
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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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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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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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