The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.
JOSEPH STALINMusic’s a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.
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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.
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Music’s a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.
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Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
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It’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.
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The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
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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.
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I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
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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 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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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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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
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It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.
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Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
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This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
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Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army.
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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.
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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
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The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
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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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In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.
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We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.
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Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
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