How can you make a revolution without executions?
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.
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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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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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One cannot live in society and be free from society.
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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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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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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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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 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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Trust is good, but control is better.
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He who does not work shall not eat.
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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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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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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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