We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not “in the name of capitalism,” but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.
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.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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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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We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.
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One cannot live in society and be free from society.
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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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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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Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
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Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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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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