It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
VLADIMIR LENINIt is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
VLADIMIR LENINThe true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
VLADIMIR LENINYou cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
VLADIMIR LENINDemocracy is indispensable to socialism.
VLADIMIR LENINThe 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.
VLADIMIR LENINThe goal of socialism is communism.
VLADIMIR LENINGive me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
VLADIMIR LENINWe 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 LENINTrust is good, but control is better.
VLADIMIR LENINYou must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
VLADIMIR LENINWhen 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.
VLADIMIR LENINThe oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
VLADIMIR LENINSoviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
VLADIMIR LENINOne must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
VLADIMIR LENINThe 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.
VLADIMIR LENINCommunists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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