In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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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Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
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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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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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When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
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If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a ‘peace conference,’ you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
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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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Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
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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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I trust no one, not even myself.
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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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You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.
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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
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Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
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