Joseph Stalin

Statesmanship Soviet Union 1878 – 1953 97 quotes

Dictator who industrialized the USSR at great human cost during WWII.

Quotes by Joseph Stalin

Everyone lives by selling something.

Article 1921

The genius of Lenin was that he knew how to find the right path.

Speech 1924

The Party is the mind, honor and conscience of our epoch.

Speech 1939

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Conversation 1930

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

Speech 1927

What good is a leader if he doesn't know how to fight?

Letter 1918

The struggle between the Communist Party and the capitalist world is a struggle between two different worlds.

Speech 1938

I am not a millionaire, but I am a Marxist.

Conversation 1920

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Interview 1935

The Pope! How many divisions has he got?

Conversation 1927

We are not angels. We are people, and people make mistakes.

Speech 1939

The State does not exist for its own sake, but for the people.

Writing 1920

One death is a tragedy, one million is a statistic.

Conversation 1947

The dictatorship of the proletariat means the dictatorship of the toiling masses.

Article 1917

I trust no one, not even myself.

Personal reflection 1945

The war is not over until the last enemy is defeated.

Speech 1945

Lenin's death is a great loss to the working class.

Speech 1924

The kulaks are a class of bloodsuckers, exploiters, and leeches.

Speech 1929

Socialism is the watchword of the twentieth century.

Constitution preface 1936

The victory of socialism in one country is possible.

Writing 1924