Top quotes by the Supreme Leader of Soviet Russia, Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin was the secretary-general of the communist party of Soviet Russia and Premier of the Soviet State. He dictatorially ruled the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century. Stalin’s first political promotion came in 1912 When Vladimir Lenin appointed him to the first central committee of the Bolshevik Party. Under Lenin’s influence as Party leader, Stalin played a key role in the Russian revolution. When Lenin died in 1924, Stalin succeeded him. He was known for the brutal things he did to the people.
Here are the top Quotes said by the supreme leader of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin.
” Education is a weapon whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”
“I trust no one, not even myself.”
” The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.”
” The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election, the people who count the votes do.”
” When we hang the Capitalist they will sell us the rope we use.”
” It is enough that people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”
” Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.”
” I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.”
” The only real power comes out of a long rifle.”
” In the Soviet army, it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”
” 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.”
” Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.”
” If the opposition disarms, well and good if it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.”
” You can’t make a revolution with silk gloves.”
” Everyone imposes his system as far as his army can reach.”
” History shows that there are no invincible armies.”
” A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.”
“Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.”
” The writer is the engineer of the human soul.”
” If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death of a ‘peace conference, you can be sure his government has already placed its order for new battleships and aeroplanes.”
” Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.”
” Death is the solution to all problems. No man-no problem.”
” Principles triumph, they do not compromise.”
” We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences. ” True conformity” is possible only in the cemetery.
“It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.”
” When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.”
” Music is a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.”
” You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.”
” Quantity has a quality all its own.”
Quotes can be a life saviour, when you don’t have anything to retain your confidence it will be the rope of your life to reach heights.
