There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
JOSEPH STALINThere are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
JOSEPH STALINIdeas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
JOSEPH STALINIf the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
JOSEPH STALINIt’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.
JOSEPH STALINHistory shows that there are no invincible armies.
JOSEPH STALINTake some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
JOSEPH STALINThe leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
JOSEPH STALINYou do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.
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 STALINPolitical power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.
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 STALINIn the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
JOSEPH STALINIf any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a ‘peace conference,’ you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
JOSEPH STALINPrint is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
JOSEPH STALINThis creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
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 STALIN