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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It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.
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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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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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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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It doesn't matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.
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When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.
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The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa.
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[Maxim] Litvinov signed his letter not in private capacity but as representative of the state, just as did President [Franklin] Roosevelt. Their agreement represents an agrement between two states. Signing this agreement both Litvinov and President Roosevelt as the representatives of two states have in mind the activities of the agents of those states who should not and will not interfere in each other's internal affairs.
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We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.
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I trust no one, not even myself.
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I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.
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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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Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.
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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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We have not yet built a communist society.It is not so easy to build such a society.
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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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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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- 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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Die, but do not retreat.
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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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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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We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.