Music’s a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.
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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I trust no one, not even myself.
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In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother
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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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It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
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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’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.
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