Joseph Stalin

Die, but do not retreat.

World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries … [and] when these federation of republics have finally grown into a world union of Soviet Socialist Republics uniting the whole of mankind under the hegemony of the international proletariat organized as a state.

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.

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

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.

The Holocaust was a crime without parallel in history, and I am proud to launch an initiative to raise awareness of and to tackle anti-Semitism in all its forms. This is the start of an important journey and we all have a part to play.

How incredible our ancestors were. The first astrophysicists, scientists, physicians, mathematicians, architects, creators of so much of the world as we know it. It’s a blessing to know what cloth you’re cut from!

Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Americans Never Quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We Make History.

History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.

To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

Kings are the slaves of history.