Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
VLADIMIR LENINAutocracy 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.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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We are not shooting enough professors.
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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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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.
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The only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.
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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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It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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Any cook should be able to run the country.
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Trust is good, but control is better.
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The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
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The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
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Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
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The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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