When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.
VLADIMIR LENINWe can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don’t eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.
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We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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Three keys to success: read, read, read.
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Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.
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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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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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Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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We are not shooting enough professors.
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
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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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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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Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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