Joseph Stalin Quotes
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Not a few organizations exist in our country which function poorly. Sometimes it happens that this or that local government or organ have to satisfy one or another of the many-sided and ever increasing demands of the working population of town and countryside.
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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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Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
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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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It doesn't matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.
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Farmers present by themselves the basic force of the national movement. Without farmers there can be no strong national movement. This is what we mean when we say that the nationalist question, is actually, the farmers' question.
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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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It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.
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I trust no one, not even myself.
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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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The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa.
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Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle.
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When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.
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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.
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We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.
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Universal, equal, direct and secret elections in the U.S.S.R. will be a whip in the hands of the population against poorly functioning organs of government.
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There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.
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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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I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.
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Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.
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Of course, in order to build something new, one has to economize, accumulate means, temporarily limit one's requirements, borrow from others. If you want to build a new house, you save money temporarily and limit your requirements, otherwise you might not build your house.
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Exported revolution is nonsense.
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We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.
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Quanity has it's own quality.