The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
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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The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
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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 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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When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.
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Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
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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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The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.
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Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!
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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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This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
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Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.
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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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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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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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