Sunday 5 June 2011

Joseph Stalin's Quote

Quotes :
By Stalin :
  • "Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?"
  • "Die, but do not retreat."
  • "Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs."
  • "Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."
  • "History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been."
  • "The only real power comes out of a long rifle."
  • "Comrades! Citizens! Brothers and sisters! Men of our army and navy!"
  • "The writer is the engineer of the human soul. "

By Other People :
  • "He had found Russia working with wooden ploughs and leaving it equipped with atomic piles. "
    -Isaac Deutscher, penulis
  • "Every crime was possible to Stalin, for there was not one he had not committed. Whatever standards we use to take his measure, in any event — let us hope for all time to come — to him will fall the glory of being the greatest criminal in history. For in him were joined the senselessness of a Caligula with the refinement of a Borgia and the brutality of a Tsar Ivan the Terrible. "
    -Milovan Dilas, politikus
  • "I consider that willingness to criticize Russia and Stalin is the test of intellectual honesty"
    -George Orwell, penulis

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