MILOVAN DJILAS

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

Marxist revolutions generally happened in countries that otherwise could not have carried out an industrial revolution.

One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.

[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.

The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.

Whatever standards we use to take his measure … to him will fall the glory of being the greatest criminal in history…. He was methodical, all-embracing, and total as a criminal. He was one of those terrible dogmatists capable of destroying nine-tenths of the human race to ‘make happy’ the other tenth.

The Communist leaders handle national property as their own, but at the same time they waste it as if it were somebody else's. Such is the nature of ownership and government of the system.

The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.

Throughout history there have been no ideal ends which were attained with non-ideal, inhumane means, just as there has been no free society which was built by slaves. Nothing so well reveals the reality and greatness of ends as the methods used to obtain them.

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.

Throughout history there have been no ideal ends which were attained with non-ideal, inhumane means, just as there has been no free society which was built by slaves. Nothing so well reveals the reality and greatness of ends as the methods used to obtain them.

The Communist leaders handle national property as their own, but at the same time they waste it as if it were somebody else's. Such is the nature of ownership and government of the system.

Marxist revolutions generally happened in countries that otherwise could not have carried out an industrial revolution.

Whatever standards we use to take his measure … to him will fall the glory of being the greatest criminal in history…. He was methodical, all-embracing, and total as a criminal. He was one of those terrible dogmatists capable of destroying nine-tenths of the human race to ‘make happy’ the other tenth.

One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.

The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.

[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.