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.
JOSEPH STALINIdeas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
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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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Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
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You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.
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If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a ‘peace conference,’ you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
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In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.
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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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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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Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
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Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.
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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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It doesn’t matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.
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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
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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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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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