110+ Joseph Stalin Quotes On Education, Communism And Capitalism

Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He was a revolutionary and a dictator who implemented policies of industrialization, collectivization, and terror. He was responsible for the deaths of millions of people during his reign. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Joseph Stalin on education, communism, capitalism.

Top 10 Joseph Stalin Quotes

1. The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
2. I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
3. When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin
4. I trust no one, not even myself.
5. Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
6. This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
7. Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.
8. Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
9. When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
10. It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.

Joseph Stalin Short Quotes

• The Pope? How many divisions has he got?
• In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
• The United States should get rid of its militias.
• You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.
• The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
• Artillery is the god of war.
• In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother
• If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
• How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass?
• Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

Joseph Stalin Quotes About Communism

The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon. — Joseph Stalin

Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built. — Joseph Stalin

[After Communism succeeds] ...then, there will come a peace across the earth. — Joseph Stalin

Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital. — Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin Quotes About Power

We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences - "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery. — Joseph Stalin

Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes. — Joseph Stalin

Having consolidated its power, and taking the lead of the peasantry, the proletariat of the victorious country can and must build a socialist society. — Joseph Stalin

He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power. — Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin Quotes About Oppressive

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. — Joseph Stalin

A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities. — Joseph Stalin

Real liberty exists only there where exploitation has been annihilated, where no oppression of some peoples by others exists, where there is no unemployment and pauperism, where a person does not tremble because tomorrow he may lose his job, home and bread. — Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin Quotes About Death

Death solves all problems - no man, no problem. — Joseph Stalin

In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty. — Joseph Stalin

Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle. — Joseph Stalin

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. — Joseph Stalin

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic. — Joseph Stalin

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. — Joseph Stalin

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy. — Joseph Stalin

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

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. — Joseph Stalin

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem. — Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin Quotes About Decide

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. — Joseph Stalin

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. — Joseph Stalin

The people who cast the votes decide nothing; the people who count the votes decide everything. — Joseph Stalin

Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything! — Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin Quotes About Count

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

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes. — Joseph Stalin

It doesnt matter how many people vote, only who counts them. — Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin Famous Quotes And Sayings

We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us. — Joseph Stalin

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. — Joseph Stalin

Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There's only one way to shut them up - cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one! — Joseph Stalin

The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages...onward, to victory! — Joseph Stalin

Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world. — Joseph Stalin

Farmers present by themselves the basic force of the national movement. Without farmers there can be no strong national movement. This is what we mean when we say that the nationalist question, is actually, the farmers' question. — Joseph Stalin

- Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful. Four years it lasted. It was absolutely necessary. — Joseph Stalin

Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron. — Joseph Stalin

You know, they are fooling us, there is no God. — Joseph Stalin

At this point the question of Ukraine is the most important. The situation in Ukraine is very bad. If we don't take steps now to improve the situation, we may lose Ukraine. The objective should be to transform Ukraine , in the shortest period of time, into a real fortress of the U.S.S.R. — Joseph Stalin

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. — Joseph Stalin

We [U.S.S.R. and U.S.A.] can exist peacefully together if we don't indulge in too much mutual fault-finding in all kinds of trifles. — Joseph Stalin

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. — Joseph Stalin

Is it possible, then, to doubt that we can and must gain victory over the German invaders? The enemy is not as strong as some terror-stricken pseudo-intellectuals picture him. The devil is not as terrible as he is painted. — Joseph Stalin

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves. — Joseph Stalin

The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil. — Joseph Stalin

This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism — Joseph Stalin

Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats. — Joseph Stalin

When you chop wood, splinters fly — Joseph Stalin

There is talk ... of our constructing Dnieprostroy through our own means. The means needed are great, several hundred millions. Let us not get into the position of the peasant who, after accumulating a nest-egg, instead of repairing his plough and renewing his equipment, buys a gramophone and goes bankrupt. — Joseph Stalin

Quantity has a quality all its own. — Joseph Stalin

Have not fascism in Italy and National Socialism in Germany claimed that they have attained similar results [as in U.S.S.R.]? Have not both been achieved at the price of privation and personal liberty sacrificed for the good of the state? — Joseph Stalin

We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries. — Joseph Stalin

Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end! — Joseph Stalin

We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism. — Joseph Stalin

Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines. — Joseph Stalin

Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis and of warlike clashes. — Joseph Stalin

[American Communist Party] legally exists in the U.S.A., it nominates its candidates in the elections, including Presidential elections. — Joseph Stalin

The art of leadership is a serious matter. One must not lag behind a movement, because to do so is to become isolated from the masses. But one must not rush ahead, for to rush ahead is to lose contact with the masses. He who wished to lead a movement must conduct a fight on two fronts--against those who lag behind and those who rush ahead. — Joseph Stalin

History shows that there are no invincible armies. — Joseph Stalin

This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system. — Joseph Stalin

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron. — Joseph Stalin

The situation is that in Germany capitalism has remained, classes and class struggle have remained which all the same will break into the open, which includes also the field of struggle of parties representing opposing classes just as it broke through in, let us say, Spain. — Joseph Stalin

It is difficult to say which is more menacing. But both of [points of war danger -Japan and Germany] exist and both are smoldering. In comparison with these two principal focal points of the war danger, the Italo-Ethiopian war represents an episode. — Joseph Stalin

There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm. — Joseph Stalin

Writers are the engineers of human souls. — Joseph Stalin

The people will always attempt to find the positive aspects of all circumstances, which, in themselves, are not susceptible to danger. — Joseph Stalin

We secured peace for our country for one and a half years, as well as an opportunity of preparing our forces for defense if fascist Germany risked attacking our country in defiance of the pact. This was a definite gain to our country and a loss for fascist Germany. — Joseph Stalin

The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa. — Joseph Stalin

Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership. — Joseph Stalin

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

Our society consists exclusively of free working people of cities and villages, workers, peasants, intelligentsia. Each of these strata may have its special interests and express them in numerous existing organizations. — Joseph Stalin

[State] finds [frontier] either with the aid of force, as in 1914, when Germany invaded Belgium in order to deal a blow against France or it "borrows" a frontier, such as Germany did with regard to Latvia, for instance, in 1918, in attempting to break through to Leningrad across Latvia. — Joseph Stalin

This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise. If now there is not a communist government in Paris, this is only because Russia has no an army which can reach Paris in 1945. — Joseph Stalin

Only when we succeed in creating such an order under which people receive for their labor from the society not according to the quantity and quality of labor, but according to their needs, will it be possible to say that we have built up a communist society. — Joseph Stalin

To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten. — Joseph Stalin

Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution. — Joseph Stalin

No revolution can be made with silk gloves. — Joseph Stalin

It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" the unemployed can have who go hungry and cannot find utilization of their labor. — Joseph Stalin

Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism. — Joseph Stalin

One of the successes of the cause of the friends of peace is the ratification of the Franco-Soviet Pact of Mutual Assistance. — Joseph Stalin

I believe that the position of the friends of peace is strengthening. The friends of peace are able to work in the open. They base themselves upon the force of public opinion. They have at their disposal such instruments as, for instance, the League of Nations. This is to the advantage of the friends of peace. — Joseph Stalin

Yes, the electoral struggle [in U.S.S.R.] will be animated. It will proceed around numerous very sharp questions, namely, practical questions having first-rate significance for the people. — Joseph Stalin

I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states. — Joseph Stalin

In a socialist society, everybody is obliged to work even though he is remunerated for his labor and not yet according to his needs, but according to the quantity and quality of the labor expended. — Joseph Stalin

Many understand "state socialism" in this way. Sometimes a system is concealed behind this term in which the capitalist state, in the interests of preparation for the conduct of war, takes upon itself the maintenance of a certain number of private enterprises. — Joseph Stalin

The society which we have built can in no way be termed "state socialism."The social organization which we have created can be termed a Soviet, socialist organization which has not yet been quite completed, but is in its root a socialist organization of society. The foundation of this society is public ownership. — Joseph Stalin

Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants, lands, banks, means of transportation, etc., remain untouched there, and, therefore, capitalism in Germany and Italy remains in full force. — Joseph Stalin

If things should go too far and deportation of all whiteguard emigres from the United States were demanded, this would be an attempt against the right of asylum promulgated in both the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. — Joseph Stalin

Direct elections on the spot to all representative organs, up to the supreme organ, are a better guarantee of the interests of the working population of our boundless country. — Joseph Stalin

Not a few organizations exist in our country which function poorly. Sometimes it happens that this or that local government or organ have to satisfy one or another of the many-sided and ever increasing demands of the working population of town and countryside. — Joseph Stalin

We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks. — Joseph Stalin

American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other. — Joseph Stalin

We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free. — Joseph Stalin

There are capitalist states which consider themselves cheated, during previous redivisions of spheres of influence, territories, sources of raw materials, markets, etc., and which would again desire to redivide them to their own advantage. — Joseph Stalin

Capitalism in its imperialistic stage is a system which regards war as a legitimate method for solution of international disputes - a method which is legitimate in fact if not legally so. — Joseph Stalin

I admit that I do not recall the speeches of Comrades [Earl] Browder and [Samuel] Darcy. I do not even recall of what they spoke. It is possible that they said something of this nature. But it was not the Soviet people who created the American Communist Party. It was created by Americans. — Joseph Stalin

Why will our elections be universal?Because all citizens, excluding those deprived of vote by court, will have the right to vote and the right to be elected. — Joseph Stalin

For instance, our country wanted to effect a revolution, and did effect it, and now we are building a new classless society. — Joseph Stalin

In my opinion, there are two focal points of the war danger. The first focal point is the Far East zone of Japan. The second focal point in the zone is Germany. — Joseph Stalin

It was necessary, temporarily, to limit certain requirements, accumulate necessary means, strain forces. We acted precisely in this way and built a socialist society. — Joseph Stalin

Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism. — Joseph Stalin

A man's eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past — Joseph Stalin

To assert that we desire to bring about revolution in other countries, by interfering with their lives, is to speak of something which does not exist and which we never preach. — Joseph Stalin

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party. — Joseph Stalin

Life Lessons by Joseph Stalin

1. Joseph Stalin's rule taught us the importance of having a strong leader who can make difficult decisions and maintain order.
2. His rule also showed us the dangers of unchecked power and the consequences of oppressive policies.
3. Lastly, it showed us the importance of having a clear vision and a plan to achieve it, no matter the cost.