"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic." ― Joseph Stalin Topic(s): Death More From Joseph Stalin "In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance." "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." "I believe in one thing only, the power of human will." More In Death "It’s very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters."― Leon Kass "Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don’t know how."― Gloria Swanson "Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man’s need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death."― Robert Vaughn