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.
VLADIMIR LENINThe only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.
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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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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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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.
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Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
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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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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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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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