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Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.

Joseph Stalin

Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
JOSEPH STALIN

Citizenship Human Live Treasure
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 STALIN

Country Material Ourselves Plant Wealth
This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
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Break Expectation Impossible War
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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Action Different Loyalty Oneself Word
Quantity has a quality all its own.
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Deep One Liner Quality
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!
JOSEPH STALIN

Anger Army War Weapon
When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.
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Funny Person Problem
It’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.
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People Politics Vote
Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.
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Constitution Democracy Existence Myself Opinion World
The Jews are not a nation!
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Jew Nation One Liner Oppression
You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.
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Death Hair Loss
Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
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Dog Gratitude Sick Suffering
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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Existence Home Job Liberty Lose Oppression People Person Reality
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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Fundamental Man Oneself Poor Rich
Die, but do not retreat.
JOSEPH STALIN

Death One Liner Surrender
When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
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Business Death
I trust no one, not even myself.
JOSEPH STALIN

Belief One Liner Oneself Trust
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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Believe Country Necessary Possible Revolution Time
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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Army Country Goodness Myself Respect
The press must grow day in and day out – it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.
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Growth Party Politics Powerful Weapon
The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
JOSEPH STALIN

Immortal Leadership People
This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
JOSEPH STALIN

Death Feeling Heart Herself Humanity
When you chop wood, splinters fly.
JOSEPH STALIN

Fly Tree Yourself
Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.
JOSEPH STALIN

Politics Power Vote
Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
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Myself Remember Yourself
The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
JOSEPH STALIN

Human One Liner Soul Writing
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.
JOSEPH STALIN

Difference Goal Person Politics

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