Joseph Stalin Quotes

“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.”

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

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

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

“There is no nation in the whole world desiring war.”

“Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words of Luther, Russia might say: ‘Here I stand on the frontier between the old, capitalist world and the new, socialist world. Here on this frontier I unite the efforts of the proletarians of the West and of the peasantry of the East in order to shatter the old world. May the god of history be my aid!”

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

“Our society consists exclusively of free working people of cities and villages, workers, peasants, intelligentsia. Each of these strata may have its special interests and express them in numerous existing organizations.”

“We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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”

“Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.”

“History shows that there are no invincible armies.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”