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Trust is good, but control is better.

Vladimir Lenin

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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Independent Ordinary People Politics Revolution
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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Democracy Oneself Organization Recognition Violence
Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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Liberty People Reality Weapon
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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Creation Hell Listening Live Music Myself People Stupidity
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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Business Death Price
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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Justice Moral Politics
Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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Army Police Power
It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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Fear Necessary Preparation Secret
But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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Differences Littles May
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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Defeat Democracy Freedom Yourself
Three keys to success: read, read, read.
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One Liner Reading Success
Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
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Children Forever Himself Life Myself
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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Deep Time
Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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Communist Destroy
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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Easy Enemy Possible Sound Strategy
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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Freedom Politics Satisfaction
Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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Children Identity Time Transformation
You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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Act Search Weapon Yourself
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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Necessary Ourselves People Revolution War
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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Care Liberty Sarcastic True
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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Agreement Hate Language Writing
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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Desire Enemy Freedom Need Suicide Time Weapon
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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Democracy Development Limitation Oneself
One cannot live in society and be free from society.
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Freedom Impossible Live Oneself
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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Achievement Country Glory Nation Need Reality Revolution
Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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Atheist Pieces
We are not shooting enough professors.
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Death Enough Kill Teaching

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