Quotes By Joseph Stalin

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

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

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.

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

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

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

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

It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper.

To 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.

World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries ... [and] when these federation of republics have finally grown into a world union of Soviet Socialist Republics uniting the whole of mankind under the hegemony of the international proletariat organized as a state.

Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

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.

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.