Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
JOSEPH STALINPolitical power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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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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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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Quantity has a quality all its own.
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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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When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.
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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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Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.
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The Jews are not a nation!
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You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.
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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
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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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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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Die, but do not retreat.
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When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
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I trust no one, not even myself.
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We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.
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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 press must grow day in and day out – it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.
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The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
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This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
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When you chop wood, splinters fly.
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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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Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
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The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
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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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