The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (413 page)

Stalin, Joseph
1879–1953

1
There are various forms of production: artillery, automobiles, lorries. You also produce "commodities", "works", "products". Such things are highly necessary. Engineering things. For people's souls. "Products" are highly necessary too. "Products" are very important for people's souls. You are engineers of human souls.

speech to writers at Gorky's house, 26 October 1932.

2
The Pope! How many divisions has
he
got?
on being asked to encourage Catholicism in Russia by way of conciliating the Pope, 13 May 1935

W. S. Churchill
The Gathering Storm
(1948) ch. 8.

3
There is one eternally true legend—that of Judas.
at the trial of Radek in 1937

Robert Payne
The Rise and Fall of Stalin
(1966)

4
One death is a tragedy, a million deaths a statistic.

attributed

 
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Stanley, Henry Morton
1841–1904

1
Dr Livingstone, I presume?

How I found Livingstone
(1872) ch. 11

 
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Stanton, Charles E.
1859–1933

1
Lafayette, nous voilà!Lafayette, we are here.

at the tomb of Lafayette in Paris, 4 July 1917; in
New York Tribune
6 September 1917

 
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Stanton, Edwin Mcmasters
1814–69

1
Now he belongs to the ages.
of Abraham Lincoln, following his assassination, 15 April 1865

I. M. Tarbell
Life of Abraham Lincoln
(1900) vol. 2

 
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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
1815–1902

1
Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.

letter to Susan B. Anthony, 14 June 1860

 
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Stanton, Frank L.
1857–1927

1
Sweetes' li'l' feller,
Everybody knows;
Dunno what to call him,
But he's mighty lak' a rose!

"Mighty Lak' a Rose" (1901 song)

 
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