Joseph Stalin Quotes

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

~ Joseph Stalin

...[I]ron discipline does not preclude but presupposes criticism and contest of opinion within the Party. Least of all does it mean that discipline must be 'blind'. On the contrary, iron discipline does not preclude but presupposes conscious and voluntary submission, for only conscious discipline can be truly iron discipline.

~ Joseph Stalin

Death is the solution to all problems. No man-no problem.

~ Joseph Stalin

If there are no isolated phenomena in the world, if all phenomena are interconnected and interdependent, then it is clear that every social system and every social movement in history must be evaluated not from the standpoint of eternal justice or some other preconceived idea, as is not infrequently done by historians, but from the standpoint of the conditions which gave rise to that system or that social movement and with which they are connected.

~ Joseph Stalin

It is difficult for me to imagine what personal liberty is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.

~ Joseph Stalin

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

~ Joseph Stalin

The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.

~ Joseph Stalin

Writers are the engineers of human souls.

~ Joseph Stalin

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

~ Joseph Stalin

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

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

~ Joseph Stalin

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

~ Joseph Stalin

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

~ Joseph Stalin

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

~ Joseph Stalin

I trust no one, not even myself.

~ Joseph Stalin

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

~ Joseph Stalin

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

~ Joseph Stalin