One cannot live in society and be free from society.
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.
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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 is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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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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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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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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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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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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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.
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Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.
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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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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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I don’t care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
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The goal of socialism is communism.
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Those who are opposed to armed uprising. Must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
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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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There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
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Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.
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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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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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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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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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Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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