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.
JOSEPH STALINDo you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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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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The Jews are not a nation!
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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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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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The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
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Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
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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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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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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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Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
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The United States should get rid of its militias.
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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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He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
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Artillery is the god of war.
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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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