J. Stalin Quotes

Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution.

In case Japan ventures to attack the Mongolian People's Republic, seeking to destroy its independence, we will have to assist the Mongolian People's Republic.

I fail to see what dangers surrounding states can see in the ideas of the Soviet people if these states are really firmly seated in their saddles.

No revolution can be made with silk gloves.

Capitalism in its imperialistic stage is a system which regards war as a legitimate method for solution of international disputes - a method which is legitimate in fact if not legally so.

Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.

Having consolidated its power, and taking the lead of the peasantry, the proletariat of the victorious country can and must build a socialist society.

War may break out unexpectedly. Wars are not declared, nowadays. They simply start.

Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.

This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.

In a socialist society, everybody is obliged to work even though he is remunerated for his labor and not yet according to his needs, but according to the quantity and quality of the labor expended.

Yes, the electoral struggle [in U.S.S.R.] will be animated. It will proceed around numerous very sharp questions, namely, practical questions having first-rate significance for the people.

I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.

If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face of surrounding states, then you are badly mistaken.

One of the successes of the cause of the friends of peace is the ratification of the Franco-Soviet Pact of Mutual Assistance.

Under national "socialism", there is also only one party. But nothing will come out of this fascist one-party system.

Exported revolution is nonsense.

We have no parties standing in opposition to each other, just as we have no class of capitalists and a class of workers exploited by capitalists in opposition to each other.

Direct elections on the spot to all representative organs, up to the supreme organ, are a better guarantee of the interests of the working population of our boundless country.

It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.

The people who cast the votes decide nothing; the people who count the votes decide everything.

American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.

We have not yet built a communist society.It is not so easy to build such a society.

We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.

We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.

...a great army of the proletarian party [must be] prepared to smash the reactionary forces and to clear the way for the advanced forces of society.

Universal, equal, direct and secret elections in the U.S.S.R. will be a whip in the hands of the population against poorly functioning organs of government.

Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work.

I don't know what specific frontiers Germany could adopt for her purposes, but I think that those willing "to lend" a frontier to her can be found.

It was necessary, temporarily, to limit certain requirements, accumulate necessary means, strain forces. We acted precisely in this way and built a socialist society.

There is no nation in the whole world desiring war.

For instance, our country wanted to effect a revolution, and did effect it, and now we are building a new classless society.

Why will our elections be universal?Because all citizens, excluding those deprived of vote by court, will have the right to vote and the right to be elected.

In my opinion, there are two focal points of the war danger. The first focal point is the Far East zone of Japan. The second focal point in the zone is Germany.

It was not Soviet people who formed the American Communist Party.

American democracy and the Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and compete with each other. But one cannot evolve into the other.

Capitalism, in its imperialist phase, is a system which considers war to be a legitimate instrument for settling international disputes, a legal method in fact, if not in law.

Of course, Soviet people would like to see the face of surrounding states changed, but that is the business of the surrounding states.

It would be quite wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for the activities of American Communists.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man-no problem.

i am not a millionaire son " but i make my son become the, millionaire son. by jostalin

I believe in only one thing, the power of human will.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

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.

One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic.

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.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

No major war or act of mass killing in the twentieth century began without the aggressors or perpetrators first claiming innocence and victimhood.