Top 100 Quotes About Joseph Stalin
#1. I agree with ... actually it was [Joseph] Stalin who said that [Winston Churchill] he was a man who changed the history of the world and I think, if he had not been there in 1940, it might very well have been the case that we would have collapsed like France, and I shall honor him always for that.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#2. When I first saw the sand, I thought it was beautiful. Like maybe it'd be fun to just roll around in and make sand angels. Now I know the truth, that sand is actually the love child of proud parents Marie Antoinette and Joseph Stalin.
Victoria Scott
#3. Is a lifelong student of the world's wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that ridding the world of evil is a goal very different from any recommended by Jesus, Buddha or Muhammad, though not so different from some recommended by Joseph Stalin, Joseph McCarthy and Mao Tse Tung.
David James Duncan
#4. As one conservative intellectual said to me - he said if the choice is between [Joseph] Stalin and [Adolf] Hitler, I'd pick Stalin, meaning Ted Cruz because he's more predictable. So there's real civil war inside the Republican Party.
Mara Liasson
#5. Joseph Stalin was said to have contemptuously asked, "How many divisions has the pope?
Francis Fukuyama
#6. Besides Getting my ass kicked, my main accomplishment on this trip has been to massacre an incredible number of completely innocent clothes. I'm the Joseph Stalin of laundry.
Richard Kadrey
#7. Joseph Stalin is a titan of thought. His name is to be given to an entire century.
Palmiro Togliatti
#10. Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
#12. History shows that there are no invincible armies.
Joseph Stalin
#13. The way to handle people is to treat them like chickens. Take away everything they have by plucking all their feathers and then throw them a few bread crumbs. They will then follow you forever.
Joseph Stalin
#15. Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
Joseph Stalin
#16. If Stain was such a bad guy why do all these people attribute to him quotes he didn't make or change his actual quotes just enough to make them seem bad? Seem bad rather than visionary.
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
#17. The 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 Stalin
#19. If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
Joseph Stalin
#22. The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic
Joseph Stalin
#23. Is it possible, then, to doubt that we can and must gain victory over the German invaders? The enemy is not as strong as some terror-stricken pseudo-intellectuals picture him. The devil is not as terrible as he is painted.
Joseph Stalin
#24. There was an old bastard named Lenin
Who did two or three million men in.
That's a lot to have done in
But where he did one in
That old bastard Stalin did ten in.
Robert Conquest
#25. If circumstances should make it impossible (temporarily, I hope) for me to be a Russian writer, perhaps I shall be able, like the Pole Joseph Conrad, to become for a time an English writer ... ("Letter To Stalin")
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#26. Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's purges, an unnoticed similarity.
Martha Gellhorn
#27. Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution.
Joseph Stalin
#28. At this point the question of Ukraine is the most important. The situation in Ukraine is very bad. If we don't take steps now to improve the situation, we may lose Ukraine. The objective should be to transform Ukraine , in the shortest period of time, into a real fortress of the U.S.S.R.
Joseph Stalin
#29. Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end!
Joseph Stalin
#30. The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
Joseph Stalin
#31. In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.
Joseph Stalin
#32. If 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 Stalin
#33. When one person dies, it's a tragedy, but when a million people die, it's a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
#35. The United States should get rid of its militias.
Joseph Stalin
#36. We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.
Joseph Stalin
#37. One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
#38. This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism
Joseph Stalin
#39. Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.
Joseph Stalin
#40. Having consolidated its power, and taking the lead of the peasantry, the proletariat of the victorious country can and must build a socialist society.
Joseph Stalin
#41. You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.
Joseph Stalin
#42. - Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle ... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful. Four years it lasted. It was absolutely necessary.
Joseph Stalin
#43. Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
Joseph Stalin
#46. [The Albanians] seem to be rather backward and primitive people ... they can be as faithful as a dog; that is one of the traits of the primitive. Our Chuvash were the same. The Russian tsars always used them for their bodyguards.
Joseph Stalin
#48. The easiest way to gain control of the population is to carry out acts of terror. The public will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened.
Joseph Stalin
#50. [Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin.
Joseph Goebbels
#52. The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
Joseph Stalin
#53. Farmers present by themselves the basic force of the national movement. Without farmers there can be no strong national movement. This is what we mean when we say that the nationalist question, is actually, the farmers' question.
Joseph Stalin
#54. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
Joseph Stalin
#56. The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
Joseph Stalin
#58. I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
Joseph Stalin
#59. Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.
Joseph Stalin
#60. Every time I see a picture of Stalin I look him square in the eye and I say: You're a meat eater, Joseph.
Philip K. Dick
#61. There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
Joseph Stalin
#63. A man's eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past
Joseph Stalin
#65. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
Joseph Stalin
#68. Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
Joseph Stalin
#69. I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how.
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
#70. To slacken the tempo ... would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten ...
Joseph Stalin
#71. He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
Joseph Stalin
#74. I 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
#75. Advance towards socialism cannot but cause the exploiting elements to resist the advance, and the resistance of the exploiters cannot but lead to the inevitable sharpening of the class struggle.
Joseph Stalin
#76. When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.
Joseph Stalin
#77. There 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 Stalin
#78. We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.
Joseph Stalin
#79. When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
Joseph Stalin
#82. Ah, 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 Stalin
#83. The people will always attempt to find the positive aspects of all circumstances, which, in themselves, are not susceptible to danger.
Joseph Stalin
#84. Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle.
Joseph Stalin
#85. Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
Joseph Stalin
#86. It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.
Joseph Stalin
#87. The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks ... And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.
Joseph Stalin
#88. The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.
Joseph Stalin
#89. Nobody 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 Stalin
#91. [After Communism succeeds] ... then, there will come a peace across the earth.
Joseph Stalin
#92. Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.
Joseph Stalin
#95. We 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 Stalin
#96. Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
Joseph Stalin
#99. How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass?
Joseph Stalin
#100. The formation of Stalin's character is particularly important because the nature of his rule was so personal.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
