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.
JOSEPH STALINYou cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
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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Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
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I trust no one, not even myself.
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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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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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You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.
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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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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
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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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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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In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother
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Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
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It doesn’t matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.
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He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
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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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