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.
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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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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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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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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The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
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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 the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.
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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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A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
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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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The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
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Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
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Quantity has a quality all its own.
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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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History shows that there are no invincible armies.
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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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Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
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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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In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother
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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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Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.
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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
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It doesn’t matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.
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Artillery is the god of war.
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The Jews are not a nation!
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