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.
VLADIMIR LENINThe 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.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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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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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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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 man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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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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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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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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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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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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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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The only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.
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The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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How can you make a revolution without executions?
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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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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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The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
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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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