One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.
VLADIMIR LENINWhen it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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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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The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
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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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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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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.
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When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.
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America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism.
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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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But I can’t listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.
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