We are not shooting enough professors.
VLADIMIR LENINOne 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.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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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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You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.
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We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.
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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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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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Don’t be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.
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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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The goal of socialism is communism.
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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.
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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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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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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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