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.
VLADIMIR LENINTrust is good, but control is better.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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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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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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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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Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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Don’t be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.
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Three keys to success: read, read, read.
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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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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.
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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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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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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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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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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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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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One cannot live in society and be free from society.
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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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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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We are not shooting enough professors.
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