Milovan Quotes

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

Milovan Djilas

#2. I don't know how, but the dormitory smells like sleep - like laundry and shoes and night sweats and morning coffee.

Veronica Roth

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

Milovan Djilas

#4. The voice you believe will determine the future you experience

Steven Furtick

#5. 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

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

Milovan Djilas

#7. Some services are too important to leave to the marketplace.

Joseph Bernardin

#8. Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

Marya Mannes

#9. Every place in West, it seemed, was always for sale.

C.J. Box

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

Milovan Djilas

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

Milovan Djilas

#12. Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#13. 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

#14. To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

Jandy Nelson