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A man’s eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past

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
Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
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Abuse People Priviledge Right Stupidity
Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
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Simplicity Start War
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!
JOSEPH STALIN

Change Fight Ourselves People Victory War
The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.
JOSEPH STALIN

Death Deep Man Oneself Tragedy
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
You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.
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Death Hair Loss
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
Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
JOSEPH STALIN

Dog Gratitude Sick Suffering
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
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
It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
JOSEPH STALIN

Hero History
You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
JOSEPH STALIN

Revolution Weakness Yourself
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
Quantity has a quality all its own.
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Deep One Liner Quality
The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
JOSEPH STALIN

Experience History Rich Teaching
Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.
JOSEPH STALIN

People Value Wealth
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.
JOSEPH STALIN

Battle Beginning Death Government Peace Place
The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
JOSEPH STALIN

Human One Liner Soul Writing
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.
JOSEPH STALIN

Army Government Reason War
You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.
JOSEPH STALIN

Atheist Fools God Yourself
History shows that there are no invincible armies.
JOSEPH STALIN

Army One Liner Reality War
In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.
JOSEPH STALIN

Death Democracy Future
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.
JOSEPH STALIN

Important Myself Politics Vote
Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.
JOSEPH STALIN

Determination Education Hands Reality Weapon
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
When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
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Business Death

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