Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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He who does not work shall not eat.
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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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Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
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We are not shooting enough professors.
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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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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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We do not have time to play at “oppositions” at “conferences.” We will keep our political opponents,whether open or disguised as “nonparty,” in prison.
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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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Any cook should be able to run the country.
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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
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