Joseph Stalin Quotes

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

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

Death solves all problems – no man, no problem.

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

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.

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

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

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this lag in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.

Advance forward, overcoming all obstacles, until the final victory of communism.

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

Gratitude is sickness suffered by dogs.

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don’t let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

Joseph Stalin Quotes part 2

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

Quantity has a quality all its own.

A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.

The only thing that matters is power.

The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of terror.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

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.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

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

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

Death solves all problems – no man, no problem.

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.

We have socialism. It is here.

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

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

The only real power comes from a long rifle.

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

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

When we hang the capitalists, they will sell us the rope we use.

The most important thing when you are in a dangerous situation is to know how to get out of it.

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel and it’s a dead end.

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

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.

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.