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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.

Joseph Stalin

Quantity has a quality all its own.
JOSEPH STALIN

Deep One Liner Quality
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
JOSEPH STALIN

Army Courage Surrender
I trust no one, not even myself.
JOSEPH STALIN

Belief One Liner Oneself Trust
It’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.
JOSEPH STALIN

People Politics Vote
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.
JOSEPH STALIN

Country Development Distance Goodness
It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
JOSEPH STALIN

Hero History
When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
JOSEPH STALIN

Business Death
This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
JOSEPH STALIN

Break Expectation Impossible War
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 STALIN

Fundamental Man Oneself Poor Rich
In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.
JOSEPH STALIN

Death Democracy Future
Music’s a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.
JOSEPH STALIN

Goodness Men Music One Liner Peace
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
JOSEPH STALIN

Enemy Ideas Knowledge Ourselves Powerful Weapon
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.
JOSEPH STALIN

Battle Beginning Death Government Peace Place
Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.
JOSEPH STALIN

Politics Power Vote
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.
JOSEPH STALIN

Country Material Ourselves Plant Wealth
Artillery is the god of war.
JOSEPH STALIN

God One Liner War

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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