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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

One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
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Fools Funny Oneself Wisdom
Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
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Doctor Medicine
The goal of socialism is communism.
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Goal One Liner
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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Control Media People
Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
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Oneself Peace
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
Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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Philosophy Truth Worth
Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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Democracy Movement Revolution Theory
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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Gold Necessary Ourselves Pursue Security
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
It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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Fear Necessary Preparation Secret
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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Communist Creation Knowledge Mindset Yourself
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
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
People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
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Freedom People Politics Stupidity Victim
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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Justice Moral Politics
Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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Liberty People Reality Weapon
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
Trust is good, but control is better.
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Better Control Goodness One Liner Trust
One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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Oneself Reality
Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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Freedom Himself Restriction Writing
It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
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Abuse Easy Explanation
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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Necessary Ourselves People Revolution War
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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Democracy Development Impossible Name Ourselves Path
You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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Act Search Weapon Yourself
Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.
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Generation Myself Transformation World Youth
Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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Atheist Pieces

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