If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
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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Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!
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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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Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
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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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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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The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
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Music’s a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.
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Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
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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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You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
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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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Quanity has it’s own quality.
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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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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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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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