Joseph Stalin Quotes - Page 2

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

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.

Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There's only one way to shut them up - cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!

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

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

Quantity has a quality all its own.

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

The United States should get rid of its militias.

World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries ... [and] when these federation of republics have finally grown into a world union of Soviet Socialist Republics uniting the whole of mankind under the hegemony of the international proletariat organized as a state.

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

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

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

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

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.

In speaking of the capitalists who strive only for profit, only to get rich, I do not want to say that these are the most worthless people capable of doing nothing else. Many of them undoubtedly possess great organising talent, which I would not dream of denying. We Soviet people learn a lot from the capitalists. But if you mean people who are prepared to reconstruct the world, of course you will not be able to find them in the ranks of those who faithfully serve the cause of profit. ..The capitalist is riveted in profit and nothing can tear him away from it.

Anti-Semitism is dangerous for the toilers, for it is a false track which diverts them from the proper road and leads them into the jungle. Hence, Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable and bitter enemies of anti-Semitism. In the U.S.S.R., anti-Semitism is strictly prosecuted as a phenomenon hostile to the Soviet system. According to the laws of the U.S.S.R. active anti-Semites are punished with death.

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

Real liberty exists only there where exploitation has been annihilated, where no oppression of some peoples by others exists, where there is no unemployment and pauperism, where a person does not tremble because tomorrow he may lose his job, home and bread.

Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism.

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.

[After Communism succeeds] ...then, there will come a peace across the earth.

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

As we know, the goal of every struggle is victory. But if the proletariat is to achieve victory, all the workers, irrespective of nationality, must be united. Clearly, the demolition of national barriers and close unity between the Russian, Georgian, Armenian, Polish, Jewish and other proletarians is a necessary condition for the victory of the proletariat of all Russia.