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.
JOSEPH STALINVoters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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Die, but do not retreat.
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When you chop wood, splinters fly.
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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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Music’s a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.
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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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I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
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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.
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Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
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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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This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
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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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Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
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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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Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.
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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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