Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.
JOSEPH STALINYou cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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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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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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A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
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You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
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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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Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
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Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
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The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
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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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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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Quantity has a quality all its own.
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The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.
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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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Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
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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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