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The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa.
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.
Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.
Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution.
It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.
[After Communism succeeds] ...then, there will come a peace across the earth.
The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
We have not yet built a communist society.It is not so easy to build such a society.
How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass?
Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?
Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.
Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.
To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten.
The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.
The people who cast the votes decide nothing; the people who count the votes decide everything.
Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system.
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin
I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.
Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.
We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.
Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.
Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.
Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work.
Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.
The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
Under national "socialism", there is also only one party. But nothing will come out of this fascist one-party system.
Each country, if it so desires, will make its own revolution. And if no such desire exists, no revolution will occur.
We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.
Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.
As you can see, even when [Adolf] Hitler desires to speak for peace, he cannot dispense with threats. This is symptomatic.
For instance, our country wanted to effect a revolution, and did effect it, and now we are building a new classless society.
One of the successes of the cause of the friends of peace is the ratification of the Franco-Soviet Pact of Mutual Assistance.
American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.
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
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.
We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences - "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.
The people will always attempt to find the positive aspects of all circumstances, which, in themselves, are not susceptible to danger.
There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.
[American Communist Party] legally exists in the U.S.A., it nominates its candidates in the elections, including Presidential elections.
It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" the unemployed can have who go hungry and cannot find utilization of their labor.