Joseph Stalin Quotes - Page 4

Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.

As you can see, even when [Adolf] Hitler desires to speak for peace, he cannot dispense with threats. This is symptomatic.

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

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

Writers are the engineers of human souls.

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.

Quanity has it's own quality.

The art of leadership is a serious matter. One must not lag behind a movement, because to do so is to become isolated from the masses. But one must not rush ahead, for to rush ahead is to lose contact with the masses. He who wished to lead a movement must conduct a fight on two fronts--against those who lag behind and those who rush ahead.

When you chop wood, splinters fly

The people who cast the votes decide nothing; the people who count the votes decide everything.

Artillery is the god of war.

In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.

The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages...onward, to victory!

We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.

We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.

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

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

Under national "socialism", there is also only one party. But nothing will come out of this fascist one-party system.

There is talk ... of our constructing Dnieprostroy through our own means. The means needed are great, several hundred millions. Let us not get into the position of the peasant who, after accumulating a nest-egg, instead of repairing his plough and renewing his equipment, buys a gramophone and goes bankrupt.

There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.

History shows that when a state is intent upon making war against another state, even though not adjacent, it begins to seek frontiers across which it could reach the frontiers of the state which it desires to attack. Usually, the aggressive state finds that frontier.

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.

Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?

Exported revolution is nonsense.