You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
VLADIMIR LENINWe 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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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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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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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.
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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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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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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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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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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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Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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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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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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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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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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