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.
VLADIMIR LENINThe true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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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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How can you make a revolution without executions?
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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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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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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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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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Trust is good, but control is better.
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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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We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.
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Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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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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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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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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