A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is
[ sic ] a statistic
Death is the solution to all problems.
No man - no problem.
Joseph
Stalin
Education is a weapon whose effects
depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Joseph
Stalin
Everyone imposes his own system as far
as his army can reach.
Joseph
Stalin
Gaiety is the most outstanding feature
of the Soviet Union.
Joseph
Stalin
Gratitude is a sickness suffered by
dogs.
Joseph
Stalin
History shows that there are no
invincible armies.
Joseph
Stalin
I believe in one thing only, the power
of human will.
Joseph
Stalin
I trust no one, not even myself.
Joseph
Stalin
Ideas are far more powerful than guns.
We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to
have ideas?
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
If the opposition disarms, well and
good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
Joseph
Stalin
In the Soviet army it takes more
courage to retreat than advance.
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
Mankind 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
Stalin
One death is a tragedy; a million is a
statistic.
Joseph
Stalin
Print is the sharpest and the strongest
weapon of our party.
Joseph
Stalin
The only real power comes out of a long
rifle.
Joseph
Stalin
The people who cast the votes don't
decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
Joseph
Stalin
The Pope? How many divisions has he got?
Joseph
Stalin
The writer is the engineer of the human
soul.
Joseph
Stalin
When we hang the capitalists they will
sell us the rope we use.
Joseph
Stalin
You cannot make a revolution with silk
gloves.
Joseph
Stalin
Stalin,
known then as ‘Soso’ or ‘Koba’, replied, ‘My greatest pleasure is to choose
one’s victim, prepare one’s plans minutely, slake an implacable vengeance,
and then go to bed. There’s nothing sweeter in the world.’
Young Stalin, by Simon Sebag
Montefiore - allegedly in conversation with
Lev Kamenev &
Felix Dzerzhinsky
- see
Archangel, page 37 by
Robert
Harris