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.
JOSEPH STALINReal 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.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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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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A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
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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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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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He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
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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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In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.
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When you chop wood, splinters fly.
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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 writer is the engineer of the human soul.
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Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
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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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I trust no one, not even myself.
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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
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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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