Joseph Stalin Quotes

"You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves."
- Joseph Stalin
(Related: Revolution)

"The only real power comes out of a long rifle."
- Joseph Stalin
(Related: Power)

"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic."
- Joseph Stalin
(Related: Death, Tragedy)

"Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party."
- Joseph Stalin
(Related: Party)

"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic."
- Joseph Stalin
(Related: Death, Man, Tragedy)

"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
(Related: Facts, Mankind, Poor, Property)

"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do."
- Joseph Stalin
(Related: People)

"The Pope? How many divisions has he got?"
- Joseph Stalin

"The writer is the engineer of the human soul."
- Joseph Stalin
(Related: Soul, Writer)

"When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use."
- Joseph Stalin
(Related: Will)

"In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance."
- Joseph Stalin
(Related: Courage, Army)

"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."
- Joseph Stalin
(Related: Education)

"We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?"
- Joseph Stalin
(Related: Ideas)

"Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach."
- Joseph Stalin
(Related: Army)

"If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves."
- Joseph Stalin
(Related: Opposition)

"Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union."
- Joseph Stalin

"A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron."
- Joseph Stalin
(Related: Water)

"Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem."
- Joseph Stalin
(Related: Death, Man, Problems, Solution)

"Death solves all problems - no man, no problem."
- Joseph Stalin
(Related: Death, Man, Problems)

"Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs."
- Joseph Stalin
(Related: Gratitude, Dogs, Sickness)

"History shows that there are no invincible armies."
- Joseph Stalin
(Related: History)

"I believe in one thing only, the power of human will."
- Joseph Stalin
(Related: Power, Will)

"I trust no one, not even myself."
- Joseph Stalin
(Related: Trust)

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas."
- Joseph Stalin
(Related: Ideas, Enemies)

"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
(Related: Death, Government, Airplanes)