Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
JOSEPH STALINOf all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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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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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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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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The United States should get rid of its militias.
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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 leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
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When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
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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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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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If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
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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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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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I trust no one, not even myself.
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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