You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
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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This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
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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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This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
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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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The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
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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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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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Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
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Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
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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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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!
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He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
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Quanity has it’s own quality.
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Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
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How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don’t even dare walk on the grass?
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