Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
JOSEPH STALINA man’s eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
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Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
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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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The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.
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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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You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.
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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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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
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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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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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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
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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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Quantity has a quality all its own.
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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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Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.
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If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a ‘peace conference,’ you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
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The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
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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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You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.
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History shows that there are no invincible armies.
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In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.
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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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Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.
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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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When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
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