Music’s a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.
JOSEPH STALINThere 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.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
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When you chop wood, splinters fly.
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History shows that there are no invincible armies.
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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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I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
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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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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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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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Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.
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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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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 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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Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
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Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
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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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