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.
JOSEPH STALINThe 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.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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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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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
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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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Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
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Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
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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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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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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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The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.
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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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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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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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Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!
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Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
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Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
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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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He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
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History shows that there are no invincible armies.
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Music’s a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.
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You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.
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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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The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
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