You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
JOSEPH STALINWords 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.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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The Jews are not a nation!
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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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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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Music’s a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.
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This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
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We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.
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Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.
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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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Die, but do not retreat.
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When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
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Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
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He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
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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!
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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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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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