Joseph Stalin

It is difficult to say which is more menacing. But both of [points of war danger -Japan and Germany] exist and both are smoldering. In comparison with these two principal focal points of the war danger, the Italo-Ethiopian war represents an episode.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

Advance towards socialism cannot but cause the exploiting elements to resist the advance, and the resistance of the exploiters cannot but lead to the inevitable sharpening of the class struggle.

Die, but do not retreat.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.

It doesn’t matter who they vote for, they always vote for us…

The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.

We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to ensure their interests.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

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.

Mark Twain has wonderful anti-imperialist essays. But you don’t find reference to them. I think the first general publication of them was in a book, Mark Twain’s Weapons of Satire, edited by Jim Zwick about 10 years ago.

Recently one of Germany’s famous and popular publications wrote that President Trump is pushing Europe toward Putin. If we take this together with an earlier joke, that Russia influenced elections in the United States, then this all taken together starts sounding pretty funny. We apparently influenced the election of the U.S. President, and then he gifted us Europe. Total nonsense. There’s no way to describe this other than as a joke.

We don’t say that three-year-olds are lying if they say they saw a dragon outside, or an actor in a play. It’s also not clear that it’s tactically useful to tot up the random falsehoods that pepper [Trump’s] tweets and orations.

Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.

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.

I have the greatest supporters in the world. By the way they’re the smartest, they’re the hardest working, they pay taxes.

Major military operations, particularly involving Russian armed forces, have ended. There isn’t even a need for them anymore.

The system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

Within the reigning social order, the general public must remain an object of manipulation, not a participant in thought, debate, and decision.