Joseph Stalin

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

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

Writers are the engineers of human souls.

[After Communism succeeds] …then, there will come a peace across the earth.

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

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

It’s important to remember that the constitutional system was not designed in the first place to defend the rights of people. Rather, the rights of people had to be balanced, as Madison put it, against what he called ‘the rights of property.’

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.

[The general population – “the ignorant and meddlesome outsiders”] are allowed to vote every once in a while, pick out one of us smart guys. But then they are supposed to go home and do something else like watch football or whatever it may be.

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940’s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states – no more, no less.

To confront power is costly and difficult; high standards of evidence and argument are imposed, and critical analysis is naturally not welcomed by those who are in a position to react vigorously and to determine the array of rewards and punishments.

I think the international community should unite to fight such inhuman phenomena as terror attacks and the murder of totally innocent people.

Most politicians would have gone to a meeting like the one Don jr attended in order to get info on an opponent. That’s politics!

While mild social reforms have been introduced in the United States, others now conventional in Western Europe (e.g., national health insurance, minimal ‘worker participation’ in industry, etc.) have been effectively resisted here…

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.

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.

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.