Joseph Stalin

We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.

When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.

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

In speaking of the capitalists who strive only for profit, only to get rich, I do not want to say that these are the most worthless people capable of doing nothing else. Many of them undoubtedly possess great organising talent, which I would not dream of denying. We Soviet people learn a lot from the capitalists. But if you mean people who are prepared to reconstruct the world, of course you will not be able to find them in the ranks of those who faithfully serve the cause of profit. ..The capitalist is riveted in profit and nothing can tear him away from it.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

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.

The most repressive countries in the Middle East are the ones we support. By comparison to Saudi Arabia, Iran looks like Norway…As far as violence in the Middle East is concerned, the Saudi Arabian [and] UAE actions in Yemen, which we’re supporting, are much worse than anything.

It is reasonably clear, both from current actions and the historical record, that substances tend to be criminalized when they are associated with the so-called dangerous classes, that the criminalization of certain substances is a technique of social control.

The more you can increase fear of drugs, crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.

What is called ‘capitalism’ is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy, political systems, and social and cultural life, operating in close co-operation with powerful states…

A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.

With the first link, a chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.

I don’t respond in any way to personal abuse that is thrown at me.

All of it was invented by people who oppose President Trump to undermine his legitimacy.- Vladimir Putin

I have to keep law and order and it means that I have to kill my enemies before they kill me.

We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.

When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.

Look, part of the whole technique of disempowering people is to make sure that the real agents of change fall out of history, and are never recognized in the culture for what they are. So it’s necessary to distort history and make it look as if Great Men did everything – that’s part of how you teach people they can’t do anything, they’re helpless, they just have to wait for some Great Man to come along and do it for them.

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

Democracy don’t rule the world, you better get that in your head; this world is ruled by violence, but I guess that’s better left unsaid.

President Obama hasn’t been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia.