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.
JOSEPH STALINVoters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.
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It doesn’t matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.
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How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don’t even dare walk on the grass?
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Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
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He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
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Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
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To choose one’s victims, to prepare one’s plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed… There is nothing sweeter in the world.
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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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Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
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Music’s a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.
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The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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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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If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a ‘peace conference,’ you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
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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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Die, but do not retreat.
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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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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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Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.
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You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
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Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There’s only one way to shut them up – cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!
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Quantity has a quality all its own.
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You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.
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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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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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