Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.
JOSEPH STALINNobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.
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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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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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In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother
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Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
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Quantity has a quality all its own.
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American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists.
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We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.
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Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.
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I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
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The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
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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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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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The United States should get rid of its militias.
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History shows that there are no invincible armies.
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Die, but do not retreat.
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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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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
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We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.
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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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Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
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Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
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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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Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!
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Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
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