The death of one man is death, the death of two millions is a statistic.
Aber das ist wohl so, weil ein einzelner immer der Tod ist — und zwei Millionen immer nur eine Statistik.
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Der schwarze Obelisk (1956) | A variant of this quote "One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is just a statistic." has also been attributed to Joseph Stalin, but no source for this has been found. This version appeared in the English press not later than 1958. (Ремарк, Эрих Мария // Словарь современных цитат
составитель К. В. Душенко — Москва: изд-во «Эксмо», 2006)