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 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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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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If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
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Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
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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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In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.
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He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
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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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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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In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother
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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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Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!
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I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
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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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Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.
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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
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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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It doesn’t matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.
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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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You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
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The United States should get rid of its militias.
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When you chop wood, splinters fly.
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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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Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
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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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Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
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