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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

The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Himself Leadership People
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.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Play Politics Prison Time
Those who are opposed to armed uprising. Must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Army Coward Enemy Rise
Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Army Police Power
I don’t care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Care Myself Revolution Road World
But I can’t listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Creation Hell Listening Live Music Myself People Stupidity
The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.
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Ability Art Audience Strong Truth
Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Defeat Education Learning
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Authority Himself Philsophy Poison Reality
We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not “in the name of capitalism,” but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Democracy Development Impossible Name Ourselves Path
Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Oneself Peace
Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Freedom Oppression Talk
How can you make a revolution without executions?
VLADIMIR LENIN

Death Revolution Yourself
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Care Liberty Sarcastic True
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
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
VLADIMIR LENIN

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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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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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