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It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" the unemployed can have who go hungry and cannot find utilization of their labor.
Joseph Stalin -
Under national "socialism", there is also only one party. But nothing will come out of this fascist one-party system.
Joseph Stalin
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Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis and of warlike clashes.
Joseph Stalin -
Are there no American citizens sympathizing with whiteguard emigres who conduct propaganda in favor of capitalism, against the Soviets? Then what does the point involve? The point is not to assist these persons, not to finance their activities. The point is that officials of both countries should not interfere in the internal affairs of the other country.
Joseph Stalin -
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!
Joseph Stalin -
Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end!
Joseph Stalin -
I fail to see what dangers surrounding states can see in the ideas of the Soviet people if these states are really firmly seated in their saddles.
Joseph Stalin -
We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences - "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.
Joseph Stalin
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The people who cast the votes decide nothing; the people who count the votes decide everything.
Joseph Stalin -
Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.
Joseph Stalin -
Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
Joseph Stalin -
It was necessary, temporarily, to limit certain requirements, accumulate necessary means, strain forces. We acted precisely in this way and built a socialist society.
Joseph Stalin -
A man's eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past.
Joseph Stalin -
The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
Joseph Stalin
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It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.
Joseph Stalin -
The Jews are not a nation!
Joseph Stalin -
The society which we have built can in no way be termed "state socialism."The social organization which we have created can be termed a Soviet, socialist organization which has not yet been quite completed, but is in its root a socialist organization of society. The foundation of this society is public ownership.
Joseph Stalin -
I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how.
Joseph Stalin -
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
Joseph Stalin -
A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
Joseph Stalin
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We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.
Joseph Stalin -
I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.
Joseph Stalin -
The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.
Joseph Stalin -
Only when we succeed in creating such an order under which people receive for their labor from the society not according to the quantity and quality of labor, but according to their needs, will it be possible to say that we have built up a communist society.
Joseph Stalin