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.
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.
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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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A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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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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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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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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Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
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When you chop wood, splinters fly.
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You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.
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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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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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We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.
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The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
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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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The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
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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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Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
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Quanity has it’s own quality.
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The Jews are not a nation!
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History shows that there are no invincible armies.
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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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Artillery is the god of war.
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Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
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It doesn’t matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.
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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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