You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
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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Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.
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Music’s a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.
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A man’s eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past
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When you chop wood, splinters fly.
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Quantity has a quality all its own.
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We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.
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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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He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
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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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We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.
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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
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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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Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.
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Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
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I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
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