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 STALINOur 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.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
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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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Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.
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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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The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
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The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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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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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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This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
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This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
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Real 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.
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In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.
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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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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
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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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Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
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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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Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
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You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
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The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.
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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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The Jews are not a nation!
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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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