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 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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When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.
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One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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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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When 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.
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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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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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People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
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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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Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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I don’t care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
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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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Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
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Trust is good, but control is better.
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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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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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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 of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.
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He who does not work shall not eat.
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