Djilas Quotes

#1. Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.

Larry Niven

#2. Bird cages are nothing of incredible value, but I like them.

Elsa Peretti

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

Milovan Djilas

#4. Arthur shook his head and sat down. He looked up.
"I thought you must be dead ... " he said simply.
"So did I for a while," said Ford, "and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. I kept myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic.

Douglas Adams

#5. Tyranny over the mind is the most complete and most brutal type of tyranny; every other tyranny begins and ends with it.

Milovan Djilas

#6. Is there anyone ... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#7. Better to be an honourable man than a minister of state.

Milovan Djilas

#8. I don't know how you drink this straight. You're badass."
"That's why I am your boss-

Andrea Cremer

#9. Dear me, one day I'll make you proud.

Charlotte Eriksson

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

Milovan Djilas

#11. The experience of the expert is an advantage to them only for as long as it enables them to learn faster than the novice

Agona Apell

#12. I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny - I just never put it to use.

Spoken Reasons

#13. It was a good thing I was a pacifist, because otherwise I'd have started planning her murder.

Laurelin Paige

#14. I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

John Nelson Darby

#15. Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

Milovan Djilas

#16. 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.

Milovan Djilas

#17. The hardest thing about being a communist is trying to predict the past.

Milovan Djilas