Quotes from Joseph Stalin

Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.

Artillery is the god of war.

In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother

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.

This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism

Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end!

This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system.

Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.

Capitalism in its imperialistic stage is a system which regards war as a legitimate method for solution of international disputes - a method which is legitimate in fact if not legally so.

This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.

Writers are the engineers of human souls.

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

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

It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.

A man's eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past

When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.

I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

In a socialist society, everybody is obliged to work even though he is remunerated for his labor and not yet according to his needs, but according to the quantity and quality of the labor expended.

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

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work.

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

I trust no one, not even myself.