Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
JOSEPH STALINAh, 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!
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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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 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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The United States should get rid of its militias.
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Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
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Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
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Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
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The Jews are not a nation!
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Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!
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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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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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A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
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It doesn’t matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.
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This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
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