Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.
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 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 STALINThe Jews are not a nation!
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 STALINThe Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages…onward, to victory!
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 STALINNobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army.
JOSEPH STALINGaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
JOSEPH STALINTake some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
JOSEPH STALINIdeas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
JOSEPH STALINNowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
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 STALINWe believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.
JOSEPH STALINPersonel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.
JOSEPH STALINThe writer is the engineer of the human soul.
JOSEPH STALIN