We rate these quotes easily -- the truth is harder to bear. When I think of the millions who have died, I am humbled beyond belief. -- E Archer, NYC
Such truth has rarely been spoken so simply. If I may, permit me add that this is a great example of a worthy message, despite how one may feel about the messenger. -- Me, Augusta, GA
Oops, forgot to rate it. -- me, Augusta, GA
Sad, but true, if you add the word perceived. -- Reb, Jerusalem
A window to Stalin's soul. He really didn't mean that one death was a tragedy, unless he was thinking about being in a situation where he could cause but only one death. Socialism kills. Hard to rate. Revealing, but he really only meant the second half of it. Socialism has no compassion or respect for human life. -- warren, olathe
And he created those "statistics" after disarming the population. Never give up your guns. -- Anonymous
This diseased parasite from Georgia certainly did not believe that one death is a tragedy. He did believe, however, in numbers.
-- Anonymous, Miami Shores, Fl
Not shooting the messenger, One death is a tragedy (even if Stalin didn't believe so) and the greater the tragedy the more quotable the statistic. -- Mike, Norwalk
Socialism has killed more people than all of the crazed religious lunatics in history. If we're going to start banning things, that's where I'd start. -- Ken, Allyn, WA
Stalin killed over 20 million so he knew what he was talking about - Ken and Warren you really must learn the difference between socialism and communism the US is more aligned to communism than socialism - without socialism the people of America would have started a war - we already have socialism in the US and if we are to succeed we are likely to get more of it - so I suggest you read up on the origin of Socialism. Socialism and Liberalism are the two main factors that keep the cogs turning without the need for war. -- RobertSRQ
he's just terrible......
i wonder what would he say if he was
one of the million. -- viktoriya t, new york
Does anyone know where I can find the source of this quote? (Not that I doubt that Stalin would say it given how many members of my own family he murdered.) -- Vic, Winnipeg, MB
He never said that, that is why there is no source to that quote. -- A, Sudbury
It's not Stalin's phrase. It's from Remarque 's novel "Im Westen nichts Neues". And it actually sounds this way: "But, it seems, it's always this way - a death of one man is a death, a death of two million people - simply statistic". And I dont think he was so horrible. -- Anonymous
"A" is right, this quote is always misattributed to Stalin, he never actually said it it's just a bit of cold war propaganda that's still floating around. -- B, Cambridge
Perfect. -- Truth
I think that that one person that he meant whose death is a tragedy is his own. He didn't care about the other people- not even his own people.
However, there is a simple truth to the quote that some people think of many massacres as just statistics of history, but the death of their loved ones as catastrophes. -- Samurai, Kyoto
-- E Archer, NYC
-- A, Sudbury
