Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
JOSEPH STALINWhen we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
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We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.
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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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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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If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
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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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Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
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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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This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
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A man’s eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past
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Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
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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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History shows that there are no invincible armies.
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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
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