Joseph Stalin

I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who…

— Joseph Stalin

Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to…

— Joseph Stalin

We have no parties standing in opposition to each other, just as we have no class of capitalists and a class of…

— Joseph Stalin

Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.

— Joseph Stalin

[State] finds [frontier] either with the aid of force, as in 1914, when Germany invaded Belgium in order to deal a blow…

— Joseph Stalin

Artillery is the god of war.

— Joseph Stalin

Real liberty exists only there where exploitation has been annihilated, where no oppression of some peoples by others exists, where there is…

— Joseph Stalin

American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for…

— Joseph Stalin

Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.

— Joseph Stalin

A single death is a tragedy, are million deaths is a statistic.

— Joseph Stalin

Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.

— Joseph Stalin

The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.

— Joseph Stalin

I fail to see what dangers surrounding states can see in the ideas of the Soviet people if these states are really…

— Joseph Stalin

I believe that the position of the friends of peace is strengthening. The friends of peace are able to work in the…

— Joseph Stalin

There is talk ... of our constructing Dnieprostroy through our own means. The means needed are great, several hundred millions. Let us…

— Joseph Stalin

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

— Joseph Stalin

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

— Joseph Stalin

As you can see, even when [Adolf] Hitler desires to speak for peace, he cannot dispense with threats. This is symptomatic.

— Joseph Stalin

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

— Joseph Stalin

I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.

— Joseph Stalin

“Человечество делится на богатых и бедных, на собственников и эксплуатации, а также отвлечься от этого основного разделения, и от антагонизма между богатыми…

— Joseph Stalin

When you chop wood, splinters fly

— Joseph Stalin

What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction…

— Joseph Stalin

One of the successes of the cause of the friends of peace is the ratification of the Franco-Soviet Pact of Mutual Assistance.

— Joseph Stalin

Our society consists exclusively of free working people of cities and villages, workers, peasants, intelligentsia. Each of these strata may have its…

— Joseph Stalin