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.
JOSEPH STALINWhen there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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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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Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
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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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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
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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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The press must grow day in and day out – it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.
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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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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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When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.
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It doesn’t matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.
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He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
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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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Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
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