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America
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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.
-Josef Stalin
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Class
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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.
-Josef Stalin
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Communism
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When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
-Josef Stalin
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Death
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One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
-Josef Stalin
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Education
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Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
-Josef Stalin
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Gratitude
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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
-Josef Stalin
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Ideas
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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.
-Josef Stalin, (attributed)
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Military, the
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History shows that there are no invincible armies.
-Josef Stalin
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Religion
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The Pope? How many divisions has he got?
-Josef Stalin
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Voting
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The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
-Josef Stalin
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Words
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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
-Josef Stalin
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Books by and about Josef Stalin