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.
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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When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
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Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There’s only one way to shut them up – cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!
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Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
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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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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
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Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
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Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
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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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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
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It’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.
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The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.
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Artillery is the god of war.
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To choose one’s victims, to prepare one’s plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed… There is nothing sweeter in the world.
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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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The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.
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Quanity has it’s own quality.
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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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When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.
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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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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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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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Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.
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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 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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