Joseph Stalin

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

I trust no one, not even myself.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

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

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.