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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.

Vladimir Lenin

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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Democracy Oneself Organization Recognition Violence
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
You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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Act Search Weapon Yourself
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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Freedom Politics Satisfaction
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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Atheist Force Heaven Promise Religion Resistance
One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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Oneself Reality
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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Democracy Injustice Oppression Rich
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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Leadership Men Oneself Weapon
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
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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Kind Man Nation Present Togetherness
But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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Differences Littles May
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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Care Liberty Sarcastic True
Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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Democracy Liberty One Liner
Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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Capitalist Rope Sells
Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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Freedom Himself Restriction Writing
As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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Control Mean Peace War World
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 would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.
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Greatness Mistake Thinking War
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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Freedom Honesty Hypocrisy Result Weakness
You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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Revolution White Yourself
The only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.
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Inspirational Mistake Oneself Writing
The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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Establishment Money Nation
How can you make a revolution without executions?
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Death Revolution 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
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
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
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Destruction Law Politics Way
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

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