Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.
JOSEPH STALINWhen we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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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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Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
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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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It doesn’t matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.
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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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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
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You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.
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In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother
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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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Die, but do not retreat.
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I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
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Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
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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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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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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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