We are not shooting enough professors.
VLADIMIR LENINWhen 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.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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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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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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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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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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It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.
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He who does not work shall not eat.
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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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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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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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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 goal of socialism is communism.
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Trust is good, but control is better.
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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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It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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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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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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