Joseph Stalin Quotes

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin

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.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

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

Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army

I trust no one, not even myself.

We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.

It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.

The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.

Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There's only one way to shut them up - cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

A man's eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past

He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.

The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages...onward, to victory!

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.

Die, but do not retreat.

Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.

[After Communism succeeds] ...then, there will come a peace across the earth.

The United States should get rid of its militias.

You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.

The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

Artillery is the god of war.

- Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful. Four years it lasted. It was absolutely necessary.

In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother

There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective.

music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man.

In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.

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.

How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass?

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.

The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks.... And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!

Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.

We [U.S.S.R. and U.S.A.] can exist peacefully together if we don't indulge in too much mutual fault-finding in all kinds of trifles.