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> # Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.

[Joseph Stalin](https://quotesby.net/Joseph-Stalin)\#42

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## About this quote

What does it mean?This dark statement suggests that removing a person eliminates the problems they cause.In plain termsKilling someone removes the trouble they bring.What can you take from it?Elimination is treated as a solution to problems.

### Where it applies

- political purge
- assassination
- moral debate

### Putting it to work

- reject violence
- seek nonlethal solutions
- debate ethics

### Questions to consider

- Is death a valid solution?
- What values underpin this?

### Another view

It justifies murder as a practical administrative step.

## More from Joseph Stalin

1. > For some people, four walls are three too many.

[Permalink to quote \#41](https://quotesby.net/Joseph-Stalin/41/ "Permalink to quote 41")
2. > Stalin was a guy like we are, not only that he considered himself a revolutionary and lived like one, but he was a character in the truest sense of the word.

[Permalink to quote \#43](https://quotesby.net/Joseph-Stalin/43/ "Permalink to quote 43")
3. > Then devil is with us, and together we will win.

[Permalink to quote \#40](https://quotesby.net/Joseph-Stalin/40/ "Permalink to quote 40")

## Related quotes

1. > Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused. The privilege, inborn and …

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2. > No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

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3. > And there, a field rat, startled, squealing bleeds, His belly close to ground. I see the blade, Blood-stained, continue cutting weeds and shade

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