There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
JOSEPH STALINWe 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.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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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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I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
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This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
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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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Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
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Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
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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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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.
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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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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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Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.
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Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.
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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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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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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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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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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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A man’s eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past
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The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
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The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.
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I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
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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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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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