Joseph Stalin

It is difficult for me to imagine what personal liberty is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper.

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.

The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages…onward, to victory!

When one person dies, it’s a tragedy, but when a million people die, it’s a statistic.

The press must grow day in and day out – it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.

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

Primarily the United States has overstepped its national borders, and in every area.

So, the role of the Central Bank in Europe…is very reactionary. In fact, even American conservatives criticize them, as granting far too much authority to a wholly undemocratic institution; it’s just not answerable to the public.

Any people has a right to self-determination, and now in Europe the process of diluting national sovereignty in the framework of a united Europe is more accepted.

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed upon. Period.

Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one.

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

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

It is because Russia is seen as a threat, because Russia is seen as becoming a competitor. I believe this approach is mistaken.

So the fear of drugs and the fear of crime is very much stimulated by state and business propaganda. The National Justice Commission repeatedly points out that crime in the United States, while sort of high, is not off the spectrum for industrialized societies.

I don’t believe in playing games. It’s not something I would do.

Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face.

So the growth of corporate propaganda in the United States more or less parallels the growth of democracy, for quite straightforward reasons. It’s not any kind of secret. It is discussed very frankly and openly in business literature and academic social-science journals.

I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as a result of dust storms, water erosion and wind erosion; I saw the effect of that on life – on human life.