Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.
JOSEPH STALINOur new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
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Words are one thing – deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
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Artillery is the god of war.
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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
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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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It’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.
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Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
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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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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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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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History shows that there are no invincible armies.
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Music’s a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.
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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.
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Die, but do not retreat.
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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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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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Quanity has it’s own quality.
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I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
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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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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 rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
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In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother
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The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks. And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.
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He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
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Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!
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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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