Joseph Stalin quotes

I trust no one, not even myself.
- Joseph Stalin

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
- Joseph Stalin

Quantity has a quality all its own.
- Joseph Stalin

Ours is a just cause; victory will be ours.
- Joseph Stalin

God is on your side? Is He a Conservative? The Devil's on my side, he's a good Communist.
- Joseph Stalin

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
- Joseph Stalin

The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.
- Joseph Stalin

The leaders of the bourgeoisie hope to create a blood bath in these countries, rely on the police bayonets, and appeal to the help of people like Gandhi.
- Joseph Stalin

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
- Joseph Stalin

Social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism.... These organisations are not antipodes, they are twin.
- Joseph Stalin

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
- Joseph Stalin

The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
- Joseph Stalin

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
- Joseph Stalin

History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been.
- Joseph Stalin

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
- Joseph Stalin

There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
- Joseph Stalin

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
- Joseph Stalin

If you're afraid of wolves, don't go into the woods.
- Joseph Stalin

True conformity is possible only in the cemetery.
- Joseph Stalin

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
- Joseph Stalin

Life has improved, comrades. Life has become more joyous.
- Joseph Stalin

The idea of a concentration camp is excellent.
- Joseph Stalin

They are fooling us, there is no God.
- Joseph Stalin