Joseph Stalin Quotes

The United States should get rid of its militias.

Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

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

The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

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

Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to a vague regional loyalty than they will for a world authority. Later the regions can be brought together all the way into a single world dictatorship.

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

To choose one’s victims, to prepare one’s plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed… There is nothing sweeter in the world.

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

When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem. Josef Stalin

By May, 1st, 1937, there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of God will have been banished from the Soviet Union as a remnant of the Middle Ages, which has been used for the purpose of oppressing the working classes.

I trust no one, not even myself.

We don’t let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.