"To decide once every few years which members……" — Vladimir Lenin
"To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary- constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics."
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Vladimir Lenin
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216 Quotes by Vladimir Lenin
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we…
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Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
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Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force,…
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We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate,…
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But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in…
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For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.
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A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.
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