Politics Quotes

Power, governance, and the messy business of organizing human societies.

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"Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party."
Joseph Stalin
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"The collective farm is the surest path to socialism."
Joseph Stalin
J
"The workers and peasants need the guidance of the party."
Joseph Stalin
J
"Russia has always needed a Tsar."
Joseph Stalin
J
"Communism is Soviet power plus electrification of the whole country."
Joseph Stalin
J
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."
Joseph Stalin
J
"The workers' state must do everything to help in the building of socialism."
Joseph Stalin
J
"We do not have deviations; we have a correct line."
Joseph Stalin
J
"The State is the instrument of the proletariat."
Joseph Stalin
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"I am not a communist, I am a revolutionary."
Fidel Castro
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"I have always been more of a nationalist than a communist."
Fidel Castro
F
"Socialism and communism are related, but not identical concepts."
Fidel Castro
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"The revolution betrayed is the revolution that must be reclaimed by the working masses themselves."
Leon Trotsky
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"The state exists not to serve all equally but to maintain the rule of the ruling class."
Leon Trotsky
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"We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports."
Mao Zedong
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"The revolution devours its own children if they lose sight of the people."
Mao Zedong
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"Fascism is a religion; the twentieth century will be known as the century of Fascism."
Benito Mussolini
B
"The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State."
Benito Mussolini
B
"Democracy is a regime rentable to few."
Benito Mussolini
B
"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism as it is a merge of state and corporate power."
Benito Mussolini
B
"Fascism, in fact, purges out of the system those wrecks of the shipwreck of mankind."
Benito Mussolini
B
"The foundation of Fascism is the conception of the State."
Benito Mussolini
B
"The State is absolute, individuals and groups are relative."
Benito Mussolini
B
"The individual is precious only insofar as he is part of the State."
Benito Mussolini
B
"Diversity is an enemy to unity."
Benito Mussolini
B
"The individual is obsolete in the face of the State."
Benito Mussolini
B
"All within the state, nothing outside the state."
Benito Mussolini
B
"I do not believe in democracy."
Benito Mussolini
B
"Propaganda is more effective when the masses do not know they are being propagandized."
Benito Mussolini
B
"The State is consciousness."
Benito Mussolini