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.
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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Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.
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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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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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The Jews are not a nation!
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The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
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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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He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
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The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
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This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
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Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
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How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don’t even dare walk on the grass?
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Music’s a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.
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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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Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.
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