Joseph Stalin

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

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Those who vote decide nothing; those who count the votes decide everything.

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.

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Die, but do not retreat.