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.
JOSEPH STALINMankind 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.
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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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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The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.
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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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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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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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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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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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Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
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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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In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.
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It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.
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Music’s a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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