Joseph Stalin

“When the Bolsheviks came to power they were soft and easy with their enemies... we had begun by making a mistake. Leniency towards such a power was a crime against the working classes. That soon became apparent...”

“The Pope! How many divisions has he got?”

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

“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 only one thing, the power of human will.”

“This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.”

“Человечество делится на богатых и бедных, на собственников и эксплуатации, а также отвлечься от этого основного разделения, и от антагонизма между богатыми и бедными средствами абстрагирования себя от основных фактов which means 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.”

“Nieważne, kto głosuje, ważne, kto liczy głosy (Не важно кто голосует, важно - кто голоса подсчитывает)”

“Papież? A ile on ma dywizji? (Папа! А у него сколько дивизий?)”

“In the Soviet Union, it's takes more courage to retreat than advance.”

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

“...[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.”

“History shows that there are no invincible armies.”

“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”

“History has shown there are no invincible armies.”

“[redacted; spurious].”

“We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?”

“You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.”

“music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man. ”

“[spurious quotation].”

“It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.”

“[spurious].”

“The only real power comes out of a long rifle.”

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

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

“Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.”

“[redacted; quotation spurious].”

“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”

“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!”