Joseph Stalin

I trust no one, not even myself.

Words are one thing – deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army

There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

Politics should not interfere with sports. And sports should impact politics.

But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.

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.

I’m a history buff, and I know that big changes take time. But I also know that, setting politics aside, usually things are never as good as you think they are or as bad as you think they are. And that has served me well temperamentally.

Nobody has better respect for intelligence than Donald Trump.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.

I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that will be distributed equally throughout the world.

The idea of neutral objectivity is at best misleading and often fraudulent. We cannot help but approach complex and controversial questions – especially those of human significance – with a definite point of view, with an ax to grind if you like…

Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.

There can be no bosses in our country except the people. The job of the government is to serve, not to dominate.

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It’s not 3,000. It’s tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don’t just succumb.

The “We are America, bitch” posture appeals to chauvinistic instincts and the white supremacy that is a deeply rooted feature of American culture and is now exacerbated by concern that whites might even become a minority.I don’t incidentally suggest that the [media] deceit is conscious. Much more likely, it’s just the enormous power of conformity to convention, to what Gramsci called hegemonic “common sense.” Some ideas are not even rejected; they are unthinkable.

Hamas is regularly described as ‘Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.’ One will be hard put to find something like ‘democratically elected Hamas, which has long been calling for a two-state settlement in accord with the international consensus’-blocked for over 30 years by the US and Israel. All true, but not a useful contribution to the Party Line, hence dispensable.