Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
JOSEPH STALINIf 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.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
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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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Quantity has a quality all its own.
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When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
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It doesn’t matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.
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Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
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The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
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Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
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The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
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You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.
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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.
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He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
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When you chop wood, splinters fly.
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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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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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