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 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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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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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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Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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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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Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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How can you make a revolution without executions?
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Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
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Those who are opposed to armed uprising. Must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
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Trust is good, but control is better.
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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.
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But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.
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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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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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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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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Fascism is capitalism in decay.
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Any cook should be able to run the country.
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The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.
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Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.
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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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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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