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!
JOSEPH STALINThis is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
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I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
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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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This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
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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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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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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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You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.
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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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The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
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I trust no one, not even myself.
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When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.
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Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!
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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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