Joseph Stalin

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

There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective.

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.- Joseph Stalin

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

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.

World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of enslaved nations and restoration of their sovereign rights, the right of every nation to arrange its affairs as it wishes, economic aid to nations that have suffered and assistance to them in attaining their material welfare, restoration of democratic liberties, and destruction of the Hitlerite regime.

I could have spent eight years doing anything, and at some level, it would have been fine. I could have focused on flowers. I could have focused on decor. I could have focused on entertainment. Because any First Lady, rightfully, gets to define her role. There’s no legislative authority; you’re not elected. And that’s a wonderful gift of freedom.

In accordance with the prevailing conceptions in the U.S., there is no infringement on democracy if a few corporations control the information system: in fact, that is the essence of democracy.

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.

Overall, we are moving in the right direction. We have started on the trajectory toward robust economic growth in Russia. Yes, this growth is humble, small, but it is also not a fall. Growth was at 1.5 percent last year.

Economic control…is the control of the means for all our ends. And whoever has control of the means must also determine which ends are to be served.

People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don’t want to learn it themselves.

I would prefer to think of anarchism as the libertarian left, and from that point of view anarchism can be conceived as a kind of voluntary socialism, that is, as libertarian socialist or anarcho-syndicalist or communist anarchist [Bakunin, Kropotkin and others.]

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.

In Downing Street they called me ‘Boss’. Civil servants would always call me ‘Prime Minister’.

Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Let’s not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody’s permission or to obey anybody’s orders. It is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today.