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.
VLADIMIR LENINThe best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
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We are not shooting enough professors.
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It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
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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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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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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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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.
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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 way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
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Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.
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Fascism is capitalism in decay.
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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 destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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