Joseph Stalin Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to a vague regional loyalty than they will for a world authority. Later the regions can be brought together all the way into a single world dictatorship.

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. Josef Stalin

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.

It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper.

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

By May, 1st, 1937, there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of God will have been banished from the Soviet Union as a remnant of the Middle Ages, which has been used for the purpose of oppressing the working classes.

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.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

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.

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

I trust no one, not even myself.

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

The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

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.

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

Die, but do not retreat.