How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don’t even dare walk on the grass?
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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Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.
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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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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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You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.
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In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother
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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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Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
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We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.
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A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
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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.
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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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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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This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
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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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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
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