Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.
JOSEPH STALINOur Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.
JOSEPH STALINThere are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
JOSEPH STALINIf the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
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 STALINIdeas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
JOSEPH STALINWhen there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.
JOSEPH STALINWhen you chop wood, splinters fly.
JOSEPH STALINThe press must grow day in and day out – it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.
JOSEPH STALINYou do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.
JOSEPH STALINEducation is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.
JOSEPH STALINHe who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
JOSEPH STALINIdeas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
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 STALINMusic’s a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.
JOSEPH STALINGratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
JOSEPH STALINThe death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.
JOSEPH STALIN