Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
VLADIMIR LENINTrust is good, but control is better.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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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 goal of socialism is communism.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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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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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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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.
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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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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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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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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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The only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.
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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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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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One cannot live in society and be free from society.
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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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One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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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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The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
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