Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.
JOSEPH STALINPersonel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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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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When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
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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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Music’s a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.
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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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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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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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In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.
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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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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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I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
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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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History shows that there are no invincible armies.
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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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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
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How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don’t even dare walk on the grass?
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Artillery is the god of war.
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We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.
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Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
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I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
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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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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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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 trust no one, not even myself.
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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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