Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
VLADIMIR LENINSoviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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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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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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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.
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We are not shooting enough professors.
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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.
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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.
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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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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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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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There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
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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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