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.
VLADIMIR LENINCommunists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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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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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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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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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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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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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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It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.
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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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