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Vladimir Lenin

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
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Destruction Law Politics Way
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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Atheist Force Heaven Promise Religion Resistance
Three keys to success: read, read, read.
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One Liner Reading Success
But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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Differences Littles May
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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Achievement Country Glory Nation Need Reality Revolution
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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Intelligence Lost People
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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Democracy Oneself Organization Recognition Violence
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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Leadership Men Oneself Weapon
Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.
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Ability Education Mindset Power Struggle
You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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Act Search Weapon Yourself
The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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Best Control Leadership Ourselves
No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.
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Determination Interest Nation Right
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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Gold Necessary Ourselves Pursue Security
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.
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Play Politics Prison Time
The goal of socialism is communism.
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Goal One Liner
Don’t be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.
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Defeat Democracy Freedom Yourself
Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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Defeat Education Learning
Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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Army Police Power
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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Atheist Necessary Ourselves Practice Theory
One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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Oneself Reality
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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Care Liberty Sarcastic True
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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Authority Hands Himself Limitation Myself
Trust is good, but control is better.
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Better Control Goodness One Liner Trust
Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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Freedom Oppression Talk
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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Gratitude God Himself History Kill Mortal Soul Thankful
Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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Freedom Himself Restriction Writing
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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Agreement Hate Language Writing

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