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.
JOSEPH STALINEducation is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
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It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.
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History shows that there are no invincible armies.
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American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists.
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The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
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Die, but do not retreat.
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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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This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
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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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Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
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Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
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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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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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Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.
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