Joseph Stalin

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

"The Pope! How many divisions has he got?"

"Death is the only way out."

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."

"The task of the party is to serve the people, not to reign over them."

"Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs."

"Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party."

"The collective farm is the surest path to socialism."

"We are not fanatics."

"In the Soviet Union, it is forbidden to forbid."

"Quantity has a quality all its own."

"If only the good people were clever and only the clever people were good, the world would be paradise."

"The cadres decide everything."

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

"History shows that there are no invincible armies."

"The most reliable friendship is that of comrades in the common struggle."

"The future is certain, it is only the past that keeps changing."

"We don't have time to waste on internal polemics."

"Cadres are the decisive force for the party."

"The workers and peasants need the guidance of the party."

"We shall sooner or later create a nation of Gods."

"The Soviet government has transformed a backward peasant country into an industrial power."

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

"Without general ideas there would be no history, there would only be a chronicle of events."

"Russia has always needed a Tsar."

"The struggle for socialism is not a sprint but a marathon."

"Art belongs to the people. It must serve millions and billions."

"Communism is Soviet power plus electrification of the whole country."

"The people have always some champions of their own to restore them again by arms whenever they are deprived of them by violence."

"When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains is the truth, however improbable."