Top 411 Lenin And Stalin Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.

Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.

National self-sufficiency or "autarchy" is the ideal of [Adolf] Hitler, not of [Karl] Marx and [Vladimir] Lenin.

It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world history as Lenin.

Lenin had taken part in Jewish student meetings in Switzerland thirty-five years before.

If you have a disease of the old society, take a dose of Lenin as medication.

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

Mandelstam - his gift and the untamable nature of it - was like a thorn in Stalin's brain.

Saddam Hussein admired, studied, and copied Stalin, the paragon of modern dictators.

If Stalin ever told me to urinate, I'm not sure I'd be able to.

Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.

It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin

Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

Why shouldn't he break Ruth's record? He's got more power than Stalin.

I ALWAYS LIKED MR STALIN.

Darwinism has laid the groundwork for Hitler's and Mussolini's fascism and Stalin's communism.

The hollowing out of the heartland was good for Walmart's bottom line: its slogan might have been an amoral maxim attributed to Lenin - 'The worse, the better.'

Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them.

Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.

Stalin is a shameful stain on our country's history.

[Lenin] might have become a Maoist in the sense of attacking the party and bombarding the party headquarters out of necessity to change the whole thing around.

Lenin's ideal was to build a nation's production effort according to the model of the post office.

My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin.

I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me.

I'm a Leninist. Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that's my goal, too.

Under Stalin, artists weren't dissidents; all they hoped was to survive and write.

Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

Stalin's henchman Molotov, 96, died old and in bed, a privilege he helped to deny to millions.

Stalin's methods did not help.

I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell.

Why is Earth Day, today, also Lenin's birthday? Coincidence? Or does it signal the true intent of the national and worldwide environmental movement?

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

We decided it here. Ilyich [Lenin] believed that we shouldn't leave the Whites a live banner to rally around, especially under the present difficult circumstances.

Historians write favorably, you know, for example, about Stalin because he was doing big things.

In the new Georgia, Stalin is no longer Georgian. He's a Russian emperor.

I admit I distorted intelligence to please Stalin because I feared him.

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.

I rather liked Stalin and Molotov, got along fine with them.

Stalin's policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as dangerous.

If Stalin could only see us now, with the American Ambassador here, he'd turn in his grave.

Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.

The Soviet Union was pretty much what Lenin and Trotsky said it was.

Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50 million deaths, and Hitler for a mere 25 million. What Hitler did in his concentration camps was equalled if not exceeded in foulness by the Soviet gulags, forced starvation and pogroms. What makes the achievements of communist Russia so special and different, that you can simper around in a CCCP T-shirt, while anyone demented enough to wear anything commemorating the Third Reich would be speedily banged away under the 1986 Public Order Act?

Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.

I don't know that Donald Trump is anything more to Putin than what Lenin called a poleznye durak, a useful idiot.

Lenin in a top hat and frock coat would be a far greater anomaly than the Grand Lama of Thibet or a Zulu chief in that costume.

[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin.

Lenin sensed that Tukhachevsky was a kindred spirit. He delegated the most responsible jobs to the obscure lieutenant.

If Hitler hadn't turned against their beloved Stalin, liberals would have stuck by him, too.

Unlike the Holocaust, Stalin's murders are forgotten: dust blowing in the wind.

Utterly absorbing.... If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take you there.

In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.

I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead.

An article in the 'Moscow Times' described Trump as the city's first grand builder since Stalin.

I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.

Joseph Stalin is a titan of thought. His name is to be given to an entire century.