"Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!"
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"Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious."
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"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."
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"Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts."
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"You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves."
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"Is it possible, then, to doubt that we can and must gain victory over the German invaders? The enemy is not as strong as some terror-stricken pseudo-intellectuals picture him. The devil is not as terrible as he is painted."
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"The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil."
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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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"The Jews are not a nation!"
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"This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism"
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"Hitlers come and go, but Germany and the German people remain."
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"Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats."
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"Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party."
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"Quantity has a quality all its own."
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"Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being."
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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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"Have not fascism in Italy and National Socialism in Germany claimed that they have attained similar results [as in U.S.S.R.]? Have not both been achieved at the price of privation and personal liberty sacrificed for the good of the state?"
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"There is talk ... of our constructing Dnieprostroy through our own means. The means needed are great, several hundred millions. Let us not get into the position of the peasant who, after accumulating a nest-egg, instead of repairing his plough and renewing his equipment, buys a gramophone and goes bankrupt."
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"When you chop wood, splinters fly"
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"We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries."
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