Quotes from Joseph Stalin

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words of Luther, Russia might say: 'Here I stand on the frontier between the old, capitalist world and the new, socialist world. Here on this frontier I unite the efforts of the proletarians of the West and of the peasantry of the East in order to shatter the old world. May the god of history be my aid!

Advance towards socialism cannot but cause the exploiting elements to resist the advance, and the resistance of the exploiters cannot but lead to the inevitable sharpening of the class struggle.

I]ron discipline does not preclude but presupposes criticism and contest of opinion within the Party. Least of all does it mean that discipline must be 'blind'. On the contrary, iron discipline does not preclude but presupposes conscious and voluntary submission, for only conscious discipline can be truly iron discipline.

If there are no isolated phenomena in the world, if all phenomena are interconnected and interdependent, then it is clear that every social system and every social movement in history must be evaluated not from the standpoint of "eternal justice" or some other preconceived idea, as is not infrequently done by historians, but from the standpoint of the conditions which gave rise to that system or that social movement and with which they are connected.

I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will

There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.

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

The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic. Quoted by someone with a very sick imagination but misattributed to Stalin

i am not a millionaire son " but i make my son become the , millionaire son. by jostalin

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

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

Principles triumph, they do not compromise.

Education is a weapon whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper.

Wheres the damn food at

Niewa?ne, kto g?osuje, wa?ne, kto liczy g?osy (?? ????? ??? ????????, ????? - ??? ?????? ????????????)

Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution. To be more exact, Leninism is the theory and tactics of the proletarian revolution in general, the theory and tactics of the dictatorship of the proletariat in particular.

Papie?? A ile on ma dywizji? (????! ? ? ???? ??????? ????????)

Writers are the engineers of the human souls

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