Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
JOSEPH STALINWhen we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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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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It’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.
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The 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.
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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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The Jews are not a nation!
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Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
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The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
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Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
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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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He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
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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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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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I trust no one, not even myself.
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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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