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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.

Vladimir Lenin

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.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Greatness Mistake Thinking War
We do not have time to play at “oppositions” at “conferences.” We will keep our political opponents,whether open or disguised as “nonparty,” in prison.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Play Politics Prison Time
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.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Democracy Development Limitation Oneself
Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Democracy Movement Revolution Theory
You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Fire Heart Yourself
There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Religious Terrible
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 LENIN

Democracy Development Impossible Name Ourselves Path
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Children Myself Teaching
How can you make a revolution without executions?
VLADIMIR LENIN

Death Revolution Yourself
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Care Liberty Sarcastic True
Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Oneself Peace
People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Freedom People Politics Stupidity Victim
Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Liberty People Reality Weapon
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.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Atheist Force Heaven Promise Religion Resistance
Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Democracy Liberty One Liner
I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don’t eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Change Food Men Myself Practice

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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