American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists.
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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When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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The United States should get rid of its militias.
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This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
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You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.
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Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
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Quanity has it’s own quality.
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The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
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There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective.
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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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You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.
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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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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
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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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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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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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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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He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
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I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
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Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
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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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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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The press must grow day in and day out – it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.
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Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.
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