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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 Lenin

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Deep Time
We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Agreement Hate Language Writing
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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Independent Ordinary People Politics Revolution
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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Intelligence Lost People
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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Business Death Price
Any cook should be able to run the country.
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Country Food Run
Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Authority Hands Himself Limitation Myself
The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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Best Control Leadership Ourselves
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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Freedom Honesty Hypocrisy Result Weakness
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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Democracy Oneself Organization Recognition Violence
Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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Children Identity Time Transformation
One cannot live in society and be free from society.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Freedom Impossible Live Oneself
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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Achievement Country Glory Nation Need Reality Revolution
The only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.
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Inspirational Mistake Oneself Writing
The 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.
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Kind Man Nation Present Togetherness
There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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Religious Terrible

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.

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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.

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