Best Stalin Quotations
131 Stalin quotes by 100 unique authors
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Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the…
— Harry S. Truman
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What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will…
— Hannah Arendt
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If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they…
— A. N. Wilson
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The Soviet Union at this time was being run by the Communists, a group of men fierce in their dedication to wearing hilariously bad suits.…
— Dave Barry
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Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them.
— Jonathan Lynn
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I suspect the soviets never did want to use those bombs. The most Stalinist of Soviet hard-liners - Stalin, for example - must have realized…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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None of my 'clients' - not Eichmann, not Stangl, not Mengele, and not even Hitler or Stalin - was born a criminal. Somebody had to…
— Simon Wiesenthal
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The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show…
— Antony Beevor
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Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either -…
— Robert Fisk
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To suppose that the value of a common stock is determined purely by a corporation's earnings discounted by the relevant interest rates and adjusted for…
— James Grant
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The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money.…
— Eric Hoffer
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The Jews, I find, are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as…
— Harry S. Truman
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In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's…
— Tom Paulin
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The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin,…
— Eric Hoffer
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The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in…
— Eric Hoffer
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In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of blue- collar nostalgia…
— Serge Schmemann
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With the idea that a single creator can build a society wherein a huge number of people will live, Le Corbusier later approached Stalin. In…
— Masato
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Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using…
— Vladimir Lenin
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It's a real enigma why people are so averse to real free market capitalism even now. Here we are, in the century that has seen…
— Joseph Sobran
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Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.
— Noam Chomsky
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We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if…
— W. Averell Harriman
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Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia…
— W. Averell Harriman
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Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.
— Nikita Khrushchev
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Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.
— Vladimir Putin
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