Joseph Stalin quotes - page 5

Joseph Stalin was a Soviet political leader who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party. Under his rule, the Soviet Union transformed into a major world power through rapid industrialization and harsh policies. He remains a highly controversial figure known for both his role in World War II and his brutal regime. Here are 107 of his quotes:

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

Joseph Stalin

It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment. Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.

Joseph Stalin

Social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism.... These organisations (i.e. Fascism and social democracy) are not antipodes, they are twins.

Joseph Stalin

We are in favour of the withering away of the state, and at the same time we stand for the strengthening of the dictatorship of the proletariat, which represents the most powerful and mighty of all forms of the state which have existed up to the present day. The highest development of the power of the state, with the object of preparing the conditions of the withering away of the state: that is the Marxist formula. Is it "contradictory"? Yes, it is "contradictory." But this contradiction is a living thing and wholly reflects the Marxist dialectic.

Joseph Stalin

Much more could have been done had we Bolsheviks been cleverer.

Joseph Stalin

We cannot forget what Lenin said about our great construction, which in large part depends on our succeeding in delaying the war with the capitalist countries. This war is inevitable, but it can be delayed until the proletarian revolution ripens in Europe, or until the colonial revolutions break out, or, finally, until the capitalists fight among themselves for the division of the colonies.

Joseph Stalin