Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
VLADIMIR LENINA 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.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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One cannot live in society and be free from society.
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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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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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Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.
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Three keys to success: read, read, read.
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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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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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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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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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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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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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But I can’t listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.
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You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.
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