Joseph Stalin Quotes
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We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.
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When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.
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Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
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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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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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In my opinion, there are two focal points of the war danger. The first focal point is the Far East zone of Japan. The second focal point in the zone is Germany.
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I trust no one, not even myself.
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We have not yet built a communist society.It is not so easy to build such a society.
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Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
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It doesnt matter how many people vote, only who counts them.
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- Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful. Four years it lasted. It was absolutely necessary.
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Quanity has it's own quality.
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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 people will always attempt to find the positive aspects of all circumstances, which, in themselves, are not susceptible to danger.
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The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.
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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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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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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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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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We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to ensure their interests.
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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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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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In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother.