166 Quotes by Joseph Stalin

Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.

The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

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.

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

The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages...onward, to victory!

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

He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic