A man’s eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past
JOSEPH STALINWe 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.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother
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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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Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
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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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If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
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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 press must grow day in and day out – it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.
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You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.
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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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It doesn’t matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.
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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
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The 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.
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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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The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages…onward, to victory!
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