Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
JOSEPH STALINEverybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.
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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
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The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.
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We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.
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Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
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Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.
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Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army.
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The Jews are not a nation!
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I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this – who will count the votes, and how.
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Words are one thing – deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
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Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
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It doesn’t matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.
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Die, but do not retreat.
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Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
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Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.
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This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
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I trust no one, not even myself.
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Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.
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There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective.
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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
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The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks. And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.
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Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
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Real liberty exists only there where exploitation has been annihilated, where no oppression of some peoples by others exists, where there is no unemployment and pauperism, where a person does not tremble because tomorrow he may lose his job, home and bread.
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Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.
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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
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