Joseph Stalin
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.Collection: Peace
Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.Collection: Death
If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.Collection: Good
History shows that there are no invincible armies.Collection: History
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.Collection: Death
I trust no one, not even myself.Collection: Trust
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.Collection: Courage
One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.Collection: Death
I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.Collection: Power
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.Collection: Politics
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.Collection: Education
The only real power comes out of a long rifle.Collection: Power
The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
The Pope? How many divisions has he got?
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?
Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.Collection: People
Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.Collection: Stupid
The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.Collection: Powerful
The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.Collection: Army
Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to a vague regional loyalty than they will for a world authority. Later the regions can be brought together all the way into a single world dictatorship.Collection: Loyalty
Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!Collection: Voters
When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef StalinCollection: Problem
Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.Collection: Education
It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper.Collection: Jobs
Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.Collection: Political
By May, 1st, 1937, there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of God will have been banished from the Soviet Union as a remnant of the Middle Ages, which has been used for the purpose of oppressing the working classes.Collection: Russia
Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.Collection: Russia
It doesn't matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.Collection: Matter
It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.Collection: Hero
To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.Collection: Bed
This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.Collection: Heart
You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.Collection: Atheism
Quantity has a quality all its own.Collection: Intelligent
The United States should get rid of its militias.Collection: Political
Die, but do not retreat.Collection: Retreat
World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries ... [and] when these federation of republics have finally grown into a world union of Soviet Socialist Republics uniting the whole of mankind under the hegemony of the international proletariat organized as a state.Collection: Country
Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.Collection: Iron
[American Communist Party] legally exists in the U.S.A., it nominates its candidates in the elections, including Presidential elections.Collection: Party
Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish armyCollection: Country
It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.Collection: Fear