Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.
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I had to follow that road, even if my steps were confused and indecisive. Otherwise I would not remain a man in my own eyes. For if I know something with certainty and I am convinced of its truth, how can I deny it, hide it from my closest friends from the world and from myselfMilovan Djilas
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.
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Tyranny is to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.
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How banal, yet irrefutable, is the assertion that a person is a mixture of the 'angelic' and the 'demonic.' ... A true politician... can be neither... 'an angel' nor 'a demon... .' Politicians cannot be so if they are to... negotiate with courage and skill on the razor's edge between victory and defeat, life and death.
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Ideology in the Soviet Union is both dead, and very much alive Dead at the level of faith alive as an indispensable rationale of policy
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The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.
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