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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 soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.
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Easy Enemy Possible Sound Strategy
Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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Liberty People Reality Weapon
Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
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Oneself Peace
Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
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Children Forever Himself Life Myself
Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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Atheist Necessary Ourselves Practice Theory
You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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Act Search Weapon Yourself
Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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Democracy Liberty One Liner
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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Play Politics Prison Time
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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Authority Hands Himself Limitation Myself
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
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Death One Liner Politics
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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Democracy Development Limitation Oneself
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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Country Live Luxury Lying Oneself People
Those who are opposed to armed uprising. Must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
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Army Coward Enemy Rise
Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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Athiest Necessary Ourselves
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 way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
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Destruction Law Politics Way
Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
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Doctor Medicine
Trust is good, but control is better.
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Better Control Goodness One Liner Trust
He who does not work shall not eat.
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Eat Himself Work
There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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Religious Terrible
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
One cannot live in society and be free from society.
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Freedom Impossible Live Oneself
The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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Establishment Money Nation
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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Desire Enemy Freedom Need Suicide Time Weapon
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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Best Destroy Money
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
How can you make a revolution without executions?
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Death Revolution Yourself

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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