We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
VLADIMIR LENINWe 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.
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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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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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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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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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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He who does not work shall not eat.
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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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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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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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How can you make a revolution without executions?
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But I can’t listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.
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