Joseph Stalin Quotes

(Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)

"One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic."

"I trust no one, not even myself."

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

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

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

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

"Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem."

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

"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."

"Death solves all problems - no man, no problem."

"Die, but do not retreat."

"You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves."

"The only real power comes out of a long rifle."

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

"The Pope? How many divisions has he got?"

"Stalinist oppression on the march."

"We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?"

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

"What place does the possibility of a second front occupy in the Soviet estimates of the current situation? A most important place; one might say a place a first-rate importance"

"A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron."

"History shows that there are no invincible armies."

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

"good use of it against the Japanese."

"Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron"

"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."

"Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs."

"One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic."

"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?"

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

"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."

"Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union."

"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"

"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do."

"'The Pope?...how much divisions does he have?'"

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

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

"The writer is the engineer of the human soul."

"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."