Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
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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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
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Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
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How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don’t even dare walk on the grass?
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It doesn’t matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.
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Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
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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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Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
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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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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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A man’s eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past
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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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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
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History shows that there are no invincible armies.
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I trust no one, not even myself.
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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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The press must grow day in and day out – it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.
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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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When you chop wood, splinters fly.
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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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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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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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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You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.
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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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