How can you make a revolution without executions?
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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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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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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Fascism is capitalism in decay.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
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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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Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
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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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I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don’t eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.
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Any cook should be able to run the country.
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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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People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
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