Joseph Stalin Quotes
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In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.
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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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Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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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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Music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man.
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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 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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Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
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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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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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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.
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I trust no one, not even myself.
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Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.
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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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The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
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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!
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This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism.
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In a socialist society, everybody is obliged to work even though he is remunerated for his labor and not yet according to his needs, but according to the quantity and quality of the labor expended.
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Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
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The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa.
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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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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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It doesn't matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.