Joseph Stalin Quotes
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We [U.S.S.R. and U.S.A.] can exist peacefully together if we don't indulge in too much mutual fault-finding in all kinds of trifles.
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Universal, equal, direct and secret elections in the U.S.S.R. will be a whip in the hands of the population against poorly functioning organs of government.
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We have not yet built a communist society.It is not so easy to build such a society.
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Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.
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We have no parties standing in opposition to each other, just as we have no class of capitalists and a class of workers exploited by capitalists in opposition to each other.
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It doesnt matter how many people vote, only who counts them.
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We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.
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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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The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa.
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It doesn't matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.
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The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.
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[After Communism succeeds] ...then, there will come a peace across the earth.
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Obviously these [white-guard] emigres enjoy the right of asylum existing also in the U.S. So far as we are concerned we would never tolerate a single terrorist in our territory regardless against whom he would contemplate his crimes. Apparently the right of asylum receives broader interpretation in the U.S.A. than in our country.
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I trust no one, not even myself.
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[Maxim] Litvinov signed his letter not in private capacity but as representative of the state, just as did President [Franklin] Roosevelt. Their agreement represents an agrement between two states. Signing this agreement both Litvinov and President Roosevelt as the representatives of two states have in mind the activities of the agents of those states who should not and will not interfere in each other's internal affairs.
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It is difficult to say which is more menacing. But both of [points of war danger -Japan and Germany] exist and both are smoldering. In comparison with these two principal focal points of the war danger, the Italo-Ethiopian war represents an episode.
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Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
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Of course, in order to build something new, one has to economize, accumulate means, temporarily limit one's requirements, borrow from others. If you want to build a new house, you save money temporarily and limit your requirements, otherwise you might not build your house.
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Quanity has it's own quality.
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- Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful. Four years it lasted. It was absolutely necessary.
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There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.
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We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.
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We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to ensure their interests.
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Exported revolution is nonsense.