Joseph Stalin Quotes

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.

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.

The Jews are not a nation!

Hitlers come and go, but Germany and the German people remain.

This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism

Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

Quantity has a quality all its own.

Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.

I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how.

When you chop wood, splinters fly

We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.

Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end!

American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists.

Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.

We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.

Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.

It doesn't matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.

[American Communist Party] legally exists in the U.S.A., it nominates its candidates in the elections, including Presidential elections.

Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis and of warlike clashes.

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?

We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences - "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.

Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.

We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to ensure their interests.

This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system.

A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.

Quanity has it's own quality.

We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.

As you can see, even when [Adolf] Hitler desires to speak for peace, he cannot dispense with threats. This is symptomatic.

Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.

Ours is a just cause; victory will be ours!

Writers are the engineers of human souls.

To assert that we desire to bring about revolution in other countries, by interfering with their lives, is to speak of something which does not exist and which we never preach.

Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.

Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle.

There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.

The people will always attempt to find the positive aspects of all circumstances, which, in themselves, are not susceptible to danger.

The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa.

Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.

The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.

It doesnt matter how many people vote, only who counts them.

Each country, if it so desires, will make its own revolution. And if no such desire exists, no revolution will occur.

It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" the unemployed can have who go hungry and cannot find utilization of their labor.

To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten.