Stalin: "The only real power comes out of a long rifle."

Stalin: "Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach."

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

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."

Stalin: "Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem."

Stalin: "I trust no one, not even myself."

Stalin: "If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves."

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."

Stalin: "Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs."

Stalin: "The writer is the engineer of the human soul."

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

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."

Stalin: "One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic."

Stalin: "You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves."

Stalin: "In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance."