Death solves all problems – no man, no problem. – Joseph Stalin
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a peace conference, you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. – Joseph Stalin

Death solves all problems – no man, no problem. – Joseph Stalin
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a peace conference, you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. – Joseph Stalin
If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves. – Joseph Stalin
Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it… – George Santayana, “Chapter VIII: Prerational Morality,” The Life of Reason: Volu