Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.
JOSEPH STALINThe 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.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
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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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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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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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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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A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
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A man’s eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past
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We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.
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Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
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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 trust no one, not even myself.
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It’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.
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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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American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists.
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