Joseph Stalin Quotes
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A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
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Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.
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When you chop wood, splinters fly.
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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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Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!
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For instance, our country wanted to effect a revolution, and did effect it, and now we are building a new classless society.
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I fail to see what dangers surrounding states can see in the ideas of the Soviet people if these states are really firmly seated in their saddles.
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Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There's only one way to shut them up - cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!
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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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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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The Jews are not a nation!
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Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
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In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.
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It doesnt matter how many people vote, only who counts them.
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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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In a socialist society, everybody is obliged to work even though he is remunerated for his labor and not yet according to his needs, but according to the quantity and quality of the labor expended.
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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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I don't know what specific frontiers Germany could adopt for her purposes, but I think that those willing "to lend" a frontier to her can be found.
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Quantity has a quality all its own.
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There is no doubt that the absence of a second front in Europe considerably relieves the position of the German Army, nor can there be any doubt that the appearance of a second front on the Continent of Europe - and undoubtedly this will appear in the near future - will essentially relieve the position of our armies to the detriment of the German Army.
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The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.
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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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American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.