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Joseph Stalin (Politician)

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
— Joseph Stalin sin
If the opposition disarms, all is well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
— Joseph Stalin good
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 men
Education is a weapon whose effect depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
— Joseph Stalin cat
As we know, the goal of every struggle is victory. But if the proletariat is to achieve victory, all the workers, irrespective of nationality, must be united. Clearly, the demolition of national barriers and close unity between the Russian, Georgian, Armenian, Polish, Jewish and other proletarians is a necessary condition for the victory of the proletariat of all Russia.
— Joseph Stalin work
"Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism.”
— Joseph Stalin world
We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences — "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.
— Joseph Stalin power
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 aeroplanes.
— Joseph Stalin death
Thewhich was not elected by the people and which is not accountable to the people must be replaced by a government recognised by the people, elected by representatives of the workers, soldiers and peasants and held accountable to their representatives.
— Joseph Stalin people
The press must grow day in and day out — it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.
— Joseph Stalin art
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 power
We disagreed withandbecause we knew that the policy of amputation was fraught with great dangers for the Party, that the method of amputation, the method of blood-letting — and they demanded blood — was dangerous, infectious: today you amputate one limb, tomorrow another, the day after tomorrow a third — what will we have left in the Party?
— Joseph Stalin art
's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.
— Joseph Stalin think
What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.
— Joseph Stalin people
We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.
— Joseph Stalin sin
Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.
— Joseph Stalin anger
Anti-Semitism is dangerous for the toilers, for it is a false track which diverts them from the proper road and leads them into the jungle. Hence, Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable and bitter enemies of anti-Semitism. In the U.S.S.R., anti-Semitism is strictly prosecuted as a phenomenon hostile to the Soviet system. According to the laws of the U.S.S.R. active anti-Semites are punished with death.
— Joseph Stalin death
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 good
I know that the gentlemen in the enemy camp may think of me however they like. I consider it beneath me to try to change the minds of these gentlemen.
— Joseph Stalin change
Cadres decide everything! (more accurate translation, with respect to the context, would be "Cadres are a key to everything")
— Joseph Stalin respect
Life has improved, comrades. Life has become more joyous.
— Joseph Stalin joy
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
— Joseph Stalin cat
The confidence of the people in the worker-directors of the economy is a great thing, Comrades. The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal, everything else is ephemeral. That is why it is necessary to appreciate the full value of the confidence of the people.
— Joseph Stalin people
History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been.
— Joseph Stalin story
"Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats. - This is my final warning."
— Joseph Stalin war
You have let down our country and our Red Army. You have the nerve not to manufacture IL-2s until now. Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats. Shenkman produces one IL-2 a day and Tretyakov builds one or two MiG-3s daily. It is a mockery of our country and the Red Army. I ask you not to try the government's patience, and demand that you manufacture more ILs. This is my final warning.
— Joseph Stalin war
Ours is a just cause; victory will be ours!
— Joseph Stalin will
.... 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 pain
.... Comrades, Red Army and Red Navy men, commanders and political instructors, men and women guerrillas! The whole world is looking to you as a force capable of destroying the brigand hordes of German invaders. The enslaved peoples of Europe under the yoke of the German invaders are looking to you as their liberators. A great mission of liberation has fallen to your lot. Be worthy of this mission! The war you are waging is a war of liberation, a just war.
— Joseph Stalin war
Hitlers come and go, but Germany and the German people remain.
— Joseph Stalin people
This leads to the conclusion, it is time to finish retreating. Not one step back! Such should now be our main slogan. ... Henceforth the solid law of discipline for each commander, Red Army soldier, and commissar should be the requirement — not a single step back without order from higher command.
— Joseph Stalin time
The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
— Joseph Stalin soul
Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
— Joseph Stalin
Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
— Joseph Stalin dogs
You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.
— Joseph Stalin god
God's not unjust, he doesn't actually exist. We've been deceived. If God existed, he'd have made the world more just... I'll lend you a book and you'll see.
— Joseph Stalin world
Before your eyes rises the hero of 's story who, in a fit of aberration, imagined that he was the King of . Such is the fate of all megalomaniacs.
— Joseph Stalin fate
This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
— Joseph Stalin war
One of 's mistakes was to overlook the five great feudal families. If he had annihilated those five families, there would definitely have been no . But Ivan the Terrible would execute someone and then spend a long time repenting and praying. God got in his way in this matter. He ought to have been still more decisive!
— Joseph Stalin time
If, against all expectation, Germany finds itself in a difficult situation then she can be sure that the Soviet people will come to Germany's aid and will not allow Germany to be strangled. The Soviet Union wants to see a strong Germany and we will not allow Germany to be thrown to the ground.[—see ]
— Joseph Stalin people
This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise. If now there is not a communist government in Paris, this is only because Russia has no an army which can reach Paris in 1945.
— Joseph Stalin war
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 Stalin art
[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 faith
The Pope! How many divisions has he got?
— Joseph Stalin man
So the bastard's dead? Too bad we didn't capture him alive!
— Joseph Stalin live
Does Djilas, who is himself a writer, not know what human suffering and the human heart are? Can't he understand it if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometers through blood and fire and death has fun with a woman or takes some trifle?
— Joseph Stalin death
You [Albanians] are a separate people, just like the Persians and the Arabs, who have the same religion as the Turks. Your ancestors exhisted before the Romans and the Turks. Religion has nothing to do with nationality and statehood... the question of religious beliefs must be kept well in mind, must be handled with great care, because the religious feelings of the people must not be offended. These feelings have been cultivated in the people for many centuries, and great patience is called for on this question, because the stand towards it is important for the compactness and unity of the people.
— Joseph Stalin religion
The idea of a concentration camp is excellent.
— Joseph Stalin idea
In the Soviet Army, it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
— Joseph Stalin courage
Tsar Alexander reached Paris.
— Joseph Stalin paris
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 death
God is on your side? Is He a Conservative? The Devil's on my side, he's a good Communist.
— Joseph Stalin evil
The Jews are not a nation!
— Joseph Stalin
There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
— Joseph Stalin
I'm finished. I trust no one, not even myself.
— Joseph Stalin trust
Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
— Joseph Stalin you
"Why did you beat me so hard?"
— Joseph Stalin you
He can't even shoot straight.
— Joseph Stalin
Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
— Joseph Stalin man
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.
— Joseph Stalin fear
In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother
— Joseph Stalin war
Stalin was better informed than Roosevelt, more realistic than Churchill, in some ways the most effective of the war leaders.W. Averell Harriman, as quoted in Ludo Martenss Another view of Stalin.
— Joseph Stalin war
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 amor
Tsar Alexander reached Paris.Said to an American diplomat who remarked how grateful it must be to see Russian troops in Berlin. Quoted in Diplomacy, Henry Kissinger
— Joseph Stalin quote
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 people
In the Soviet Army, it takes more courage to retreat than advance.Said to Averell Harriman, former American ambassador to Moscow, as reported by Harriman; as quoted in Truth about the Great Patriotic war by B. Sokolov in Russian
— Joseph Stalin truth
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.
— Joseph Stalin courage
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
— Joseph Stalin death
I trust no one, not even myself.
— Joseph Stalin trust
The people who cast the votes dont decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
— Joseph Stalin people
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
— Joseph Stalin power
Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
— Joseph Stalin gratitude
Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron
— Joseph Stalin sin
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
I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
— Joseph Stalin power
If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
— Joseph Stalin good
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
— Joseph Stalin courage
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 people
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 men
One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.
— Joseph Stalin death
Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
— Joseph Stalin art
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
— Joseph Stalin death
The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
— Joseph Stalin power
The Pope? How many divisions has he got?
— Joseph Stalin man
The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
— Joseph Stalin soul
We dont let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?
— Joseph Stalin ideas
When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
— Joseph Stalin will
You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
— Joseph Stalin love
A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
— Joseph Stalin sin
Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.
— Joseph Stalin death
One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.
— Joseph Stalin death
Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
— Joseph Stalin death
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
— Joseph Stalin education
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 death
A single death is a tragedy, are million deaths is a statistic.
— Joseph Stalin death
History shows that there are no invincible armies.
— Joseph Stalin history
Humans beings do respond to love; they do have a feeling for truth and justice, they do dislike authority and repression;
— Joseph Stalin love
I was frankly horrified at the architectural exhibition that the U.S.S.R. has been showing in Detroit. Nothing that Trotsky could say against Stalins regime is half as eloquent as the self-confession of this architecture: the same bastard classicism that the financiers and imperialists of Nineteen Hundred in America conjured up as emblem of their power. Only one thing was more sickening than these dead forms: the dishonest apologetics that accompanied them.
— Joseph Stalin power
Variant loose translation: The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
— Joseph Stalin people

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