Joseph Stalin Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?”
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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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“He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.”
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“Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”
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“America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.”
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“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”
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“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”
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“One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.”
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“Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.”
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“The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages...onward, to victory!”
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“Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.”
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“This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.”
-- Joseph StalinSource : "Young Stalin" by Simon Sebag Montefiore, (p. 193), 2007.
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“Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army”
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“You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.”
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“If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.”
-- Joseph StalinSource : Joseph Stalin (1952). “Works”
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“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how.”
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“[The Albanians] seem to be rather backward and primitive people... they can be as faithful as a dog; that is one of the traits of the primitive. Our Chuvash were the same. The Russian tsars always used them for their bodyguards.”
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“The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic”
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“The easiest way to gain control of the population is to carry out acts of terror. The public will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened.”
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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 the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”
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“The writer is the engineer of the human soul.”
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“I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.”
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“If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.”
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“Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.”
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“Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.”
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“We secured peace for our country for one and a half years, as well as an opportunity of preparing our forces for defense if fascist Germany risked attacking our country in defiance of the pact. This was a definite gain to our country and a loss for fascist Germany.”
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“In speaking of the capitalists who strive only for profit, only to get rich, I do not want to say that these are the most worthless people capable of doing nothing else. Many of them undoubtedly possess great organising talent, which I would not dream of denying. We Soviet people learn a lot from the capitalists. But if you mean people who are prepared to reconstruct the world, of course you will not be able to find them in the ranks of those who faithfully serve the cause of profit. ..The capitalist is riveted in profit and nothing can tear him away from it.”
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“How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass?”
-- Joseph Stalin
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