It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
VLADIMIR LENINThe aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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He who does not work shall not eat.
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We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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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 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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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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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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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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.
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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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We are not shooting enough professors.
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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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