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 STALINMankind 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 STALINHistory shows that there are no invincible armies.
JOSEPH STALINA sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
JOSEPH STALINAmerican Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists.
JOSEPH STALINIn war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother
JOSEPH STALINAh, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There’s only one way to shut them up – cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!
JOSEPH STALINVoters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!
JOSEPH STALINWe do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.
JOSEPH STALINI believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
JOSEPH STALINHow do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don’t even dare walk on the grass?
JOSEPH STALINPolitical power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.
JOSEPH STALINI consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this – who will count the votes, and how.
JOSEPH STALINOf all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
JOSEPH STALINWe 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.
JOSEPH STALINThere are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
JOSEPH STALINThe reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.
JOSEPH STALIN