"Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege."
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"It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper."
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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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"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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"Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood."
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"Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to a vague regional loyalty than they will for a world authority. Later the regions can be brought together all the way into a single world dictatorship."
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"This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity."
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"Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down."
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"The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic."
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"When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use."
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"When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin"
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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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"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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"The only real power comes out of a long rifle."
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"By May, 1st, 1937, there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of God will have been banished from the Soviet Union as a remnant of the Middle Ages, which has been used for the purpose of oppressing the working classes."
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"World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries ... [and] when these federation of republics have finally grown into a world union of Soviet Socialist Republics uniting the whole of mankind under the hegemony of the international proletariat organized as a state."
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"I believe in one thing only, the power of human will."
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"Anti-Semitism is dangerous for the toilers, for it is a false track which diverts them from the proper road and leads them into the jungle. Hence, Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable and bitter enemies of anti-Semitism. In the U.S.S.R., anti-Semitism is strictly prosecuted as a phenomenon hostile to the Soviet system. According to the laws of the U.S.S.R. active anti-Semites are punished with death."
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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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"I trust no one, not even myself."
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