Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
JOSEPH STALINThis creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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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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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
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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.
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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
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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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The Jews are not a nation!
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It doesn’t matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.
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The United States should get rid of its militias.
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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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You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.
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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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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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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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A man’s eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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