In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
JOSEPH STALINIn the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
JOSEPH STALINThis creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
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 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 STALINYou do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.
JOSEPH STALINPrint is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
JOSEPH STALINIdeas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
JOSEPH STALINRemember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.
JOSEPH STALINThe leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
JOSEPH STALINQuanity has it’s own quality.
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 STALINThe only real power comes out of a long rifle.
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 STALINIn war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother
JOSEPH STALINThis is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
JOSEPH STALINThe Jews are not a nation!
JOSEPH STALIN