This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
JOSEPH STALINWe do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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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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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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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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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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We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.
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Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.
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Die, but do not retreat.
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Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
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The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
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Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.
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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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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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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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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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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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The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
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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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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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History shows that there are no invincible armies.
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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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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.
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Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.
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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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