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 LENINDemocracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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One cannot live in society and be free from society.
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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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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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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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He who does not work shall not eat.
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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 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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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.
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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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