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The writer is an engineer of the human soul.

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Gratitude... is a sickness suffered by dogs.

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You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

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A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.

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Life has improved, comrades. Life has become more joyous.

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So the bastard's dead? Too bad we didn't capture him alive!

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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

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In the Soviet Army, it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

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The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa.

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Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution.

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History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been.

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Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.

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God is on your side? Is He a Conservative? The Devil's on my side, he's a good Communist.

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To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten...

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The press must grow day in and day out — it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.

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Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

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Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.

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If the opposition disarms, all is well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

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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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Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.

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The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.

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Under national "socialism", there is also only one party. But nothing will come out of this fascist one-party system.

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The Hitlerite blackguards... have turned Europe into a prison of nations, and this they call the new order in Europe.

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We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.

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The State is an instrument in the hands of the ruling class, used to break the resistance of the adversaries of that class.

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We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences — "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.

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I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

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We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.

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