Joseph Stalin Quotes
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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 built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.
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We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.
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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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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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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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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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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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A man's eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past.
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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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Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work.
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American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists.
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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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I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.
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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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Quanity has it's own quality.
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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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[American Communist Party] legally exists in the U.S.A., it nominates its candidates in the elections, including Presidential elections.
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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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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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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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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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When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.
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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.