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.
JOSEPH STALINTo choose one’s victims, to prepare one’s plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed… There is nothing sweeter in the world.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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To choose one’s victims, to prepare one’s plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed… There is nothing sweeter in the world.
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A man’s eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past
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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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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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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
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It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.
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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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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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Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!
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Artillery is the god of war.
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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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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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When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
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