Joseph Stalin Quotes

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

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

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

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

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.

Die, but do not retreat.

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

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

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.

Quantity has a quality all its own.

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

I trust no one, not even myself.

The United States should get rid of its militias.

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

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

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!

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