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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!

Joseph Stalin

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.
JOSEPH STALIN

Human Important Material Soul Worth Writing
The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
JOSEPH STALIN

Experience History Rich Teaching
I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
JOSEPH STALIN

Believe Human Inspirational Willing
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.
JOSEPH STALIN

Existence Home Job Liberty Lose Oppression People Person Reality
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.
JOSEPH STALIN

Battle Beginning Death Government Peace Place
The United States should get rid of its militias.
JOSEPH STALIN

Army Politics
A man’s eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past
JOSEPH STALIN

Eyes Himself Men Past See
If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
JOSEPH STALIN

Control Freedom Goodness Weapon
It doesn’t matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.
JOSEPH STALIN

Democracy Government Politics Vote
This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
JOSEPH STALIN

Death Feeling Heart Herself Humanity
When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
JOSEPH STALIN

Business Death
The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
JOSEPH STALIN

Human One Liner Soul Writing
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.
JOSEPH STALIN

Believe Country Necessary Possible Revolution Time
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.
JOSEPH STALIN

Bed Choice Preparation Victim World
In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.
JOSEPH STALIN

Death Democracy Future
Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
JOSEPH STALIN

Dog Gratitude Sick Suffering
This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
JOSEPH STALIN

Break Expectation Impossible War
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
JOSEPH STALIN

Army Courage Surrender
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
JOSEPH STALIN

Enemy Ideas Knowledge Ourselves Powerful Weapon
Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!
JOSEPH STALIN

Decision Politics Vote
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.
JOSEPH STALIN

Important Myself Politics Vote
History shows that there are no invincible armies.
JOSEPH STALIN

Army One Liner Reality War
We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.
JOSEPH STALIN

Give Up Ourselves Surrender
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 STALIN

Army Country Goodness Myself Respect
Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.
JOSEPH STALIN

Constitution Democracy Existence Myself Opinion World
I trust no one, not even myself.
JOSEPH STALIN

Belief One Liner Oneself Trust
Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
JOSEPH STALIN

Citizenship Human Live Treasure

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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