Joseph Stalin

Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words of Luther, Russia might say: ‘Here I stand on the frontier between the old, capitalist world and the new, socialist world. Here on this frontier I unite the efforts of the proletarians of the West and of the peasantry of the East in order to shatter the old world. May the god of history be my aid!

As you can see, even when [Adolf] Hitler desires to speak for peace, he cannot dispense with threats. This is symptomatic.

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

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

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

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.

The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.

I may find Saddam Hussein’s regime abhorrent – any normal person would – but the survival of it is in his hands.

So, essentially, what President Trump is saying is, we’ll destroy your countries, slaughter you, impose brutal regimes, but if you try to get out, you’re not going to come here, because America is full.

The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions, all has a single, very simple solution. … Here it is: Put a price on carbon.

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

When one person dies, it’s a tragedy, but when a million people die, it’s a statistic.

Why can’t we use nuclear weapons?

What happened to the confidence and ideals of the European dream? The EU was set up to protect freedom. It was the Soviet Union that stopped people leaving.

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

I have always reacted negatively to those who with their snotty noses and erotic fantasies prowl into others’ lives.

This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

As important as it is to change the lightbulbs, it is more important to change the laws.

So sure, if you can find a theory that has some real principles which are of some interest and you can draw conclusions from them which you can apply to interpreting the actual world around you then sure, that’s wonderful. If there are such theories, I am happy to see them.

If the Democrats could get their act together, overcoming the schism between the donor-oriented New Democrat Party management and the increasingly activist and social democratic base, they would have a decent chance to take over Congress.