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.
JOSEPH STALINIt’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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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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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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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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The United States should get rid of its militias.
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
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A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
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When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
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Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
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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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Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
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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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Quantity has a quality all its own.
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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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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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