When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
JOSEPH STALINWhen we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
JOSEPH STALINMusic’s a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.
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 STALINIdeas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
JOSEPH STALINOf all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
JOSEPH STALINIt is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
JOSEPH STALINIt’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.
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 STALINA sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
JOSEPH STALINThere are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
JOSEPH STALINWe believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.
JOSEPH STALINThis is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
JOSEPH STALINIdeas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
JOSEPH STALINHow do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don’t even dare walk on the grass?
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 STALINNowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
JOSEPH STALIN