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“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
― Joseph Stalin

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”
― Joseph Stalin

“Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?”
― Joseph Stalin

“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”
― Joseph Stalin

“This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.”
― Joseph Stalin

“It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.”
― Joseph Stalin

“History has shown there are no invincible armies.”
― Joseph Stalin

“Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.”
― Joseph Stalin

“When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem.
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― Josef Stalin

“I believe in only one thing,the power of human will.”
― Joseph Stalin

“[spurious].”
― Joseph Stalin

“Quantity has a quality all its own.”
― Joseph Stalin

“music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man. ”
― Joseph Stalin

“Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.”
― Joseph Stalin

“You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.”
― Joseph Stalin

“People who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”
― Josef Stalin

“It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.

Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.”
― Joseph Stalin

“Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.”
― Josef Stalin

“In the Soviet Union, it's takes more courage to retreat than advance.”
― Joseph Stalin

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― Joseph Stalin

“The Pope! How many divisions has he got?”
― Joseph Stalin

“The only real power comes out of a long rifle.”
― Joseph Stalin

“It doesnt matter how many people vote, only who counts them.”
― Stalin

“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”
― Joseph Stalin

“When the Bolsheviks came to power they were soft and easy with their enemies . . . we had begun by making a mistake. Leniency towards such a power was a crime against the working classes. That soon became apparent . . .”
― Joseph Stalin

“Advance towards socialism cannot but cause the exploiting elements to resist the advance, and the resistance of the exploiters cannot but lead to the inevitable sharpening of the class struggle.”
― Joseph Stalin

“History shows that there are no invincible armies.”
― Joseph Stalin

“Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words of Luther, Russia might say: ‘Here I stand on the frontier between the old, capitalist world and the new, socialist world. Here on this frontier I unite the efforts of the proletarians of the West and of the peasantry of the East in order to shatter the old world. May the god of history be my aid!”
― Joseph Stalin

“We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?”
― Joseph Stalin

“...[I]ron discipline does not preclude but presupposes criticism and contest of opinion within the Party. Least of all does it mean that discipline must be 'blind'. On the contrary, iron discipline does not preclude but presupposes conscious and voluntary submission, for only conscious discipline can be truly iron discipline.”
― Joseph Stalin