There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective.
JOSEPH STALINThere is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective.
JOSEPH STALINThe United States should get rid of its militias.
JOSEPH STALINHe who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
JOSEPH STALINGratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
JOSEPH STALINWords are one thing – deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
JOSEPH STALINDo you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
JOSEPH STALINWe are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.
JOSEPH STALINMusic’s a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.
JOSEPH STALINWhen there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.
JOSEPH STALINThis is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
JOSEPH STALINIt doesn’t matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.
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 STALINTo choose one’s victims, to prepare one’s plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed… There is nothing sweeter in the world.
JOSEPH STALINArtillery is the god of war.
JOSEPH STALINWhen you chop wood, splinters fly.
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