One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
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.
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Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
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The goal of socialism is communism.
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The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
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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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Those who are opposed to armed uprising. Must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.
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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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It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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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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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.
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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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People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
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There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism.
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Trust is good, but control is better.
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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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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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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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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.
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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.
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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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