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.
JOSEPH STALINWhen we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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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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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
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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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The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
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We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.
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Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.
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You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.
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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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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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Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.
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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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He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
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Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
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Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
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Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
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Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.
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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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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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It doesn’t matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.
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When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
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I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
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Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!
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Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.
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Artillery is the god of war.
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When you chop wood, splinters fly.
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Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
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