Joseph Stalin Quotes

‘The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election, the people who count the votes do.’ – Joseph Stalin

‘Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem.’ – Joseph Stalin

‘Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.’ – Joseph Stalin

‘One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.’ – Joseph Stalin

‘I trust no one, not even myself.’ – Joseph Stalin

‘When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.’ – Joseph Stalin

‘Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.’ – Joseph Stalin

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

‘The only real power comes out of a long rifle.’ – Joseph Stalin

‘Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.’ – Joseph Stalin

‘The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.’ – Joseph Stalin

‘The Pope? How many divisions has he got?’ – Joseph Stalin

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

‘We don’t let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?’ – Joseph Stalin

‘Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.’ – Joseph Stalin

‘You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.’ – Joseph Stalin

‘The writer is the engineer of the human soul.’ – Joseph Stalin

‘Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.’ – Joseph Stalin

‘If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.’ – Joseph Stalin

‘A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.’ – Joseph Stalin

‘Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.’ – Joseph Stalin

‘History shows that there are no invincible armies.’ – 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