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Joseph Stalin Quotes

Total quotes: 35
“We must finally understand that of all the precious capital in the world, the most precious capital, the most decisive capital, is human beings....”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Capital, human beings, Capitalism
“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.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Democracy, Election Fraud
“History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: History, Military, Armies
“This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Sadness, Mourning, humanity
“We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences—‘true conformity’ is possible only in the cemetery.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Conformity
“We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Surrender, Territory, War
“If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a ‘peace conference,’ you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Peace, War, Duplicity
“If the opposition disarms, all is well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Disarmament, Military
“God's not unjust, he doesn't actually exist. We've been deceived. If God existed, he'd have made the world more just....I'll lend you a book and you'll see.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Darwin, Darwinism, Socialism, Social Darwinism, God, atheism
“Without getting rid of the capitalists, without abolishing the principle of private property in the means of production, it is impossible to create planned economy.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Capitalism, Private Property, Planned Economy
“Fascism is a reactionary force which is trying to preserve the old system by means of violence. What will you do with the Fascists? Argue with them? Try to convince them?”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Fascism, Reactionary, Violence
“Fascism is the bourgeoisie’s fighting organization that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Fascism, Communism, Bourgeoisie, Capitalism, Social Democracy
“Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Anti-Semitism, Cannibalism, USSR, Communism
“God is on your side? Is He a Conservative? The Devil's on my side, he's a good Communist.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: God, satan, devil, Conservative, Communist
“You, Mr. Wells, evidently start out with the assumption that all men are good. I, however, do not forget that there are many wicked men. I do not believe in the goodness of the bourgeoisie.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: HG Wells, Good, Evil, Bourgeoisie
“To bring about a revolution a leading revolutionary minority is required; but the most talented, devoted and energetic minority would be helpless if it did not rely upon the at least passive support of millions.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Revolution
“This leads to the conclusion, it is time to finish retreating. Not one step back! Such should now be our main slogan.…Henceforth the solid law of discipline for each commander, Red Army soldier, and commissar should be the requirement—not a single step back without order from higher command.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Red Army, Retreat, Discipline, Soldiers
“A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Sincerity, Diplomacy
“Wars are not declared nowadays. They simply start.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: War
“The idea of a concentration camp is excellent.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Gulags, Concentration Camps
“I'm finished. I trust no one, not even myself.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Self-Esteem, Trust, Despair
“He can't even shoot straight.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Suicide, Sardonic
“What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: USSR, Capitalism, Communism, Oppression
“Hitlers come and go, but Germany and the German people remain.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Hitler, Nazis, Germans, Germany
“The Pope! How many divisions has he got?”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Pope, War
“So the bastard's dead? Too bad we didn't capture him alive!”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Adolf Hitler, Suicide, Revenge
“No great power, even if its government strives towards it, can send out a large army to fight against another allied power, another great power, since in the present day no one can wage war without their own people, and the people don't want to fight. The nations [of the world] are tired of war.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: War, Endless War, War Fatigue, Government
“As to the character of the Party that was being built up and its role in relation to the working class, as well as its aims and objects, Lenin held that the Party should form the vanguard of the working class, that it should be the guiding force of the working-class movement, co-ordinating and directing the class struggle of the proletariat.”
— Joseph Stalin, History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union(Bolsheviks)
Tagged: Communism Vs. Capitalism, Revolution
“One of Ivan the Terrible's mistakes was to overlook the five great feudal families. If he had annihilated those five families, there would definitely have been no Time of Troubles. But Ivan the Terrible would execute someone and then spend a long time repenting and praying. God got in his way in this matter. He ought to have been still more decisive!”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Ivan the Terrible, Time of Troubles, Feudalism, God
“Firstly, it is not true that fascism is only the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. Fascism is not only a military-technical category. Fascism is the bourgeoisie’s fighting organization that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism. There is no ground for assuming that the fighting organization of the bourgeoisie can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of Social-Democracy. There is just as little ground for thinking that Social-Democracy can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of the fighting organization of the bourgeoisie. These organizations do not negate, but supplement each other. They are not antipodes, they are twins. Fascism is an informal political bloc of these two chief organizations; a bloc, which arose in the circumstances of the post-war crisis of imperialism, and which is intended for combating the proletarian revolution. The bourgeoisie cannot retain power without such a bloc. It would therefore be a mistake to think that 'pacifism' signifies the liquidation of fascism. In the present situation, 'pacifism' is the strengthening of fascism with its moderate, Social-Democratic wing pushed into the forefront.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Pacifism, Fascism, Democracy
“Owing to pressure from below, the pressure of the masses, the bourgeoisie may sometimes concede certain partial reforms while remaining on the basis of the existing social-economic system. Acting in this way, it calculates that these concessions are necessary in order to preserve its class rule. This is the essence of reform. Revolution, however, means the transference of power from one class to another. That is why it is impossible to describe any reform as revolution.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Class Warfare, Bourgeoisie, Capitalism, Revolution, Power
“Anti-Semitism is dangerous for the toilers, for it is a false track which diverts them from the proper road and leads them into the jungle. Hence, Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable and bitter enemies of anti-Semitism. In the U.S.S.R., anti-Semitism is strictly prosecuted as a phenomenon hostile to the Soviet system. According to the laws of the U.S.S.R. active anti-Semites are punished with death.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Anti-Semitism, USSR, Soviet, Communism, Internationalism
“There is no, nor should there be, irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of the individual person and the interests of the collective. There should be no such contrast, because collectivism, Socialism, does not deny, but combines individual interests with the interests of the collective. Socialism cannot abstract itself from individual interests.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Individualism, Collectivism, Socialism
“You see, we Marxists believe that a revolution will also take place in other countries. But it will take place only when the revolutionaries in those countries think it possible, or necessary. The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country will make its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution. For example, our country wanted to make a revolution and made it, and now we are building a new, classless society.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Marxism, Revolutionary, Classless Society, Interventionism
“We are not the kind of people who, when the word ‘anarchism’ is mentioned, turn away contemptuously and say with a supercilious wave of the hand: ‘Why waste time on that, it's not worth talking about!’ We think that such cheap ‘criticism’ is undignified and useless.

Nor are we the kind of people who console themselves with the thought that the Anarchists ‘have no masses behind them and, therefore, are not so dangerous.’ It is not who has a larger or smaller ‘mass’ following today, but the essence of the doctrine that matters. If the ‘doctrine’ of the Anarchists expresses the truth, then it goes without saying that it will certainly hew a path for itself and will rally the masses around itself. If, however, it is unsound and built up on a false foundation, it will not last long and will remain suspended in mid-air. But the unsoundness of anarchism must be proved.

Some people believe that Marxism and anarchism are based on the same principles and that the disagreements between them concern only tactics, so that, in the opinion of these people, no distinction whatsoever can be drawn between these two trends.

This is a great mistake.

We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism. Accordingly, we also hold that a real struggle must be waged against real enemies.”
— Joseph Stalin
Tagged: Anarchism, Socialism, Class Struggle, Marxism
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