Joseph Stalin Quotes
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[After Communism succeeds] ...then, there will come a peace across the earth.
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It is difficult to say which is more menacing. But both of [points of war danger -Japan and Germany] exist and both are smoldering. In comparison with these two principal focal points of the war danger, the Italo-Ethiopian war represents an episode.
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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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Writers are the engineers of human souls.
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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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A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
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Real liberty exists only there where exploitation has been annihilated, where no oppression of some peoples by others exists, where there is no unemployment and pauperism, where a person does not tremble because tomorrow he may lose his job, home and bread.
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We [U.S.S.R. and U.S.A.] can exist peacefully together if we don't indulge in too much mutual fault-finding in all kinds of trifles.
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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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American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
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It doesn't matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.
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Obviously these [white-guard] emigres enjoy the right of asylum existing also in the U.S. So far as we are concerned we would never tolerate a single terrorist in our territory regardless against whom he would contemplate his crimes. Apparently the right of asylum receives broader interpretation in the U.S.A. than in our country.
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History shows that when a state is intent upon making war against another state, even though not adjacent, it begins to seek frontiers across which it could reach the frontiers of the state which it desires to attack. Usually, the aggressive state finds that frontier.
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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.
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Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.
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I trust no one, not even myself.
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It was necessary, temporarily, to limit certain requirements, accumulate necessary means, strain forces. We acted precisely in this way and built a socialist society.
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Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.
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Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.
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Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work.
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We have no parties standing in opposition to each other, just as we have no class of capitalists and a class of workers exploited by capitalists in opposition to each other.
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We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.