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.
VLADIMIR LENINAuthority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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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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It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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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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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
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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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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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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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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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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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We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.
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