The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks. And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.
JOSEPH STALINIf the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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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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Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
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Die, but do not retreat.
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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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In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother
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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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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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I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
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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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He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
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It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.
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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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Real liberty exists only there where exploitation has been annihilated, where no oppression of some peoples by others exists, where there is no unemployment and pauperism, where a person does not tremble because tomorrow he may lose his job, home and bread.
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The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
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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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We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.
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Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
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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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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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It’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.
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You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.
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Artillery is the god of war.
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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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