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 STALINIt takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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Quantity has a quality all its own.
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The United States should get rid of its militias.
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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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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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The press must grow day in and day out – it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.
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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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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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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
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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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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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The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
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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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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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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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