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.
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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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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We are not shooting enough professors.
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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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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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People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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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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Those who are opposed to armed uprising. Must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
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