Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There’s only one way to shut them up – cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!
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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Music’s a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.
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In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother
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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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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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Quantity has a quality all its own.
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It doesn’t matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.
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I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
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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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The press must grow day in and day out – it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
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The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages…onward, to victory!
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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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When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.
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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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