Joseph Stalin Quotes
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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.
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The people who cast the votes decide nothing; the people who count the votes decide everything.
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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.
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Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.
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We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.
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Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.
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It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.
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One of the successes of the cause of the friends of peace is the ratification of the Franco-Soviet Pact of Mutual Assistance.
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We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.
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History shows that when a state is intent upon making war against another state, even though not adjacent, it begins to seek frontiers across which it could reach the frontiers of the state which it desires to attack. Usually, the aggressive state finds that frontier.
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The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
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A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
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Under national "socialism", there is also only one party. But nothing will come out of this fascist one-party system.
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Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.
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Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
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The society which we have built can in no way be termed "state socialism."The social organization which we have created can be termed a Soviet, socialist organization which has not yet been quite completed, but is in its root a socialist organization of society. The foundation of this society is public ownership.
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Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
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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.
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A man's eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past.
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Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end!
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It was necessary, temporarily, to limit certain requirements, accumulate necessary means, strain forces. We acted precisely in this way and built a socialist society.
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.
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Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.