Vladimir Lenin

Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?

Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?

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.

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.

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

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.

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.

We are not shooting enough professors.

We are not shooting enough professors.

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

Comrades! The insurrection of the five kulak districts must be mercilessly suppressed. The interests of the whole revolution demand it, for 'the last decisive battle' with the kulaks is now underway everywhere. An example must be made. 1. Hang (absolutely hang, so that the people can see) no fewer than 100 known kulaks, fatcats, and bloodsuckers. 2. Publish their names. 3. Seize all their grain. 4. Designate hostages - in accordance with yesterday's telegram.

Comrades! The insurrection of the five kulak districts must be mercilessly suppressed. The interests of the whole revolution demand it, for 'the last decisive battle' with the kulaks is now underway everywhere. An example must be made. 1. Hang (absolutely hang, so that the people can see) no fewer than 100 known kulaks, fatcats, and bloodsuckers. 2. Publish their names. 3. Seize all their grain. 4. Designate hostages - in accordance with yesterday's telegram.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

When we are victorious on a world scale, I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in the streets of the world's largest cities. This would be the most 'just' and most educational way of utilizing gold for the benefit of these generations which have not forgotten how, for the sake of gold, ten million men were killed and thirty million crippled in the 'great' war of liberation, for the sake of selling the 'right' to gold to the highest bidder, etc.

A man with a rifle is a citizen with a vote.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.