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.
JOSEPH STALINEveryone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother
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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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When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
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We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.
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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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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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It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.
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The Jews are not a nation!
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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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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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
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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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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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Music’s a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.
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Quanity has it’s own quality.
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