Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
JOSEPH STALINEverybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
JOSEPH STALINThe Jews are not a nation!
JOSEPH STALINYou cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
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 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 STALINPersonel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.
JOSEPH STALINQuanity has it’s own quality.
JOSEPH STALINThe death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.
JOSEPH STALINDie, but do not retreat.
JOSEPH STALINOur new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.
JOSEPH STALINIn the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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 STALINI know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
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 STALINPrint is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
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 STALIN