He was a powerful man in his own right, who turned the Soviet Union from a backward country into a world superpower at an unimaginable human cost. His life was full of controversial decisions and political choices. His regime of terror caused the death and suffering of tens of millions, but he also oversaw the war machine that played a key role in the defeat of Nazism. He is considered one of the most influential and murderous dictators in the history of the 20th century and dictator of the Soviet Union for nearly a quarter of a century. (1879 – 1953)
– Joseph Stalin Quotes –
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
~ Joseph Stalin
The more accurately we recognize and observe the laws of history and class struggle, so much the more do we conform to dialectic materialism. The more insight we have into dialectic materialism, the greater will be our success.
~ Joseph Stalin
The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
~ Joseph Stalin
Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
~ Joseph Stalin
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
~ Joseph Stalin
I trust no one, not even myself.
~ Joseph Stalin
When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
~ Joseph Stalin
Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
~ Joseph Stalin
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
~ Joseph Stalin
The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
~ Joseph Stalin
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
~ Joseph Stalin
We don’t let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?
~ Joseph Stalin
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
~ Joseph Stalin
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
~ Joseph Stalin
Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
~ Joseph Stalin
Death solves all problems – no man, no problem.
~ Joseph Stalin
The Pope? How many divisions has he got?
~ Joseph Stalin
History shows that there are no invincible armies.
~ Joseph Stalin
If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
~ Joseph Stalin
Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
~ Joseph Stalin
You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
~ Joseph Stalin
One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.
~ Joseph Stalin
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a “peace conference,” you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
~ Joseph Stalin
The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
~ Joseph Stalin
I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
~ Joseph Stalin
A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
~ Joseph Stalin
