Quantity has a quality all its own.
JOSEPH STALINThe only real power comes out of a long rifle.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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Die, but do not retreat.
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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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I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
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The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.
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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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A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
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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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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
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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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I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this – who will count the votes, and how.
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We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.
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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 the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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I trust no one, not even myself.
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It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.
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You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.
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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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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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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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The United States should get rid of its militias.
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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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Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
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We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.
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Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
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The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages…onward, to victory!
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