Famous quotes containing the words josef stalin and/or stalin:
“Gratitude ... is a sickness suffered by dogs.”
—Josef Stalin (1879–1953)
“In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is the personification of the bureaucracy. That is the substance of his political personality.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)