Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
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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Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
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Die, but do not retreat.
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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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Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
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It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.
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Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.
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Artillery is the god of war.
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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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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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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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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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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
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In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother
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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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You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.
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This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
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We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.
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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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I trust no one, not even myself.
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The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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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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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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Music’s a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.
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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
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When you chop wood, splinters fly.
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