Josef Stalin Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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

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

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

Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

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

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

The United States should get rid of its militias.

I trust no one, not even myself.

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

Quantity has a quality all its own.

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

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

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

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

Die, but do not retreat.

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.

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

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

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

The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

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

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

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

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

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