Quotes by 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.
• You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
• The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
• One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.
• Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
• The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
• 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.
• The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
• The Pope? How many divisions has he got?
• The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
• When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
• 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.
• We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?
• Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
• If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
• Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
• A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
• Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.
• Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
• Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
• History shows that there are no invincible armies.
• I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
• I trust no one, not even myself.
• Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
• 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.