You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
VLADIMIR LENINWe 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.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.
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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.
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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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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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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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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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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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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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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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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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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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