The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
VLADIMIR LENINWe need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
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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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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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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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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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.
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A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.
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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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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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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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Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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