It probably didn&#x27;t sound like anything because it&#x27;s most likely a misattribution (see the more detailed answers here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Who-said-Quantity-has-a-quality-all-its-own" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Who-said-Quantity-has-a-quality-all-it...</a>). Not saying that Quora or Wikipedia are authoritative sources, but many of this sort of alleged quotes by Stalin are usually either what someone thought Stalin might have said, or coined by Western authors writing <i>about</i> Stalin and later misattributed to him.<p>Most references I&#x27;ve found point to an American saying this quote (or similar) in the 70s.