The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
— Joseph Stalin
You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.
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.
The Pope? How many divisions has he got?
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.
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?
I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
History shows that there are no invincible armies.
Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
I trust no one, not even myself.
Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.
