Address to the Reception of Directors and Stakhanovites of the Metal Industry and the Coal Mining Industry http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1937/10/29.htm (29 October 1937)
Stalin's speeches, writings and authorised interviews
Context: The confidence of the people in the worker-directors of the economy is a great thing, Comrades. The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal, everything else is ephemeral. That is why it is necessary to appreciate the full value of the confidence of the people.
“Hitlers come and go, but Germany and the German people remain.”
"The Order #55 of the National Commissar for the Defense" (23 February 1942) http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1942/420223a.html Stalin said this when the enemy had reached the gate of Moscow during World War II. He called on the people not to identify all Germans with the Nazis.
Stalin's speeches, writings and authorised interviews
“People more willingly follow a leader who knows where he is going.”
Variant: That's what life is about: People come and go.
Source: Love, Rosie
Source: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 4, Cultural Synthesis
“People who read only the classics are sure to remain up-to-date.”
Wenn man nur die Alten liest, ist man sicher, immer neu zu bleiben.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 24.
“People come, people go.
Some grow young, some grow cold.”
You Don't Know How It Feels
Lyrics, Wildflowers (1994)
Speech at the Printing Trade Festival (1845).
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