A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
JOSEPH STALINIn war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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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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When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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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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Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
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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.
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You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.
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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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Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
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Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
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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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Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
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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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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
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Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
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