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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.

Vladimir Lenin

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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Greatness Mistake Thinking War
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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Intelligence Lost People
Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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Democracy Movement Revolution Theory
You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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Act Search Weapon Yourself
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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Freedom Politics Satisfaction
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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Control Media People
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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Ability Education Mindset Power Struggle
As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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Control Mean Peace War World
You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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Fire Heart Yourself
The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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Establishment Money Nation
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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Country Live Luxury Lying Oneself People
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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Freedom Honesty Hypocrisy Result Weakness
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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Easy Enemy Possible Sound Strategy
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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Defeat Democracy Freedom Yourself
The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.
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Ability Art Audience Strong Truth
Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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Communist Destroy
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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Determination Interest Nation Right
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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Justice Moral Politics
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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Democracy Injustice Oppression Rich
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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Achievement Country Glory Nation Need Reality Revolution
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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Creation Hell Listening Live Music Myself People Stupidity
Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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Atheist Pieces
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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Gratitude God Himself History Kill Mortal Soul Thankful
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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Decision Oppression Politics
How can you make a revolution without executions?
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Death Revolution Yourself
Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.
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Generation Myself Transformation World Youth
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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Care Liberty Sarcastic True

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