Joseph Stalin

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will

To choose one’s victims, to prepare one’s plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed … There is nothing sweeter in the world.

A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities.

In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.

The situation is that in Germany capitalism has remained, classes and class struggle have remained which all the same will break into the open, which includes also the field of struggle of parties representing opposing classes just as it broke through in, let us say, Spain.

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

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

Blame is safer than praise.

The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

See, I think you live on earth a certain number of times until you finish what it is that you were meant to do here. And then you go on. I don’t think I’ll be back here. I think I’m done.

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen’s miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.