Slovo D Quotes

#1. However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.

Joe Slovo

#2. I wanted the first time to be special, and I wanted to give it to a man that I loved
"Homecoming

Keegan Kennedy

#3. As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country.

Joe Slovo

#4. The ANC, we believe, stands at the head of the whole liberation front, the whole Mass Democratic Movement.

Joe Slovo

#5. We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.

Joe Slovo

#6. We need to respond to the mood of the people - that we must take the lives of the other side as well.

Joe Slovo

#7. You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.

Joe Slovo

#8. No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

Joe Slovo

#9. I think a legitimate target is the enemy and [the] enemy is basically in uniform, but not all [are] in Uniform. For example in the rural areas, our judgement is that virtually the whole farming community is part of the South African Defence Force.

Joe Slovo

#10. Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology.

Joe Slovo

#11. But as you say, the fundamental stumbling block is the question of the future of the economy. And it's not just the sort of economic laboratory question, of what kind of system would best generate growth, which is the way it's presented.

Joe Slovo

#12. On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on - our liberation front is characterized by relatively highly developed class forces, tested in political struggles.

Joe Slovo

#13. Once you are aware that you can live a happy, fully satisfied life without causing harm to animals, being a carnivore is a tough thing to justify.

Adam Sobel

#14. I think it is tragic that a situation should arise where civilians on any side are killed. But it is almost a cliche to say that it is virtually unavoidable and this isn't unique to us alone.

Joe Slovo

#15. Backstabbing occurs when a friend agrees with you when the two of you are alone but later sides with your opponents in a social setting.

Les Parrott

#16. You don't just want to beat a team. You want to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see your face again.

Mia Hamm

#17. It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.

Joe Slovo

#18. He knew when to compromise. Yet he never compromised his principles. He was a militant. Yet a militant who knew how to plan, assess concrete situations and emerge with rational solutions to problems.

Nelson Mandela

#19. Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.

Joe Slovo

#20. One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible.

Joe Slovo

#21. Between cold war and hot peace, our love got sterilized to death.

Natalya Vorobyova

#22. Name one thing in this world that is not negotiable.

Walter White

#23. One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country.

Joe Slovo

#24. When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.

Joe Slovo

#25. The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.

Joe Slovo

#26. Some may seek revenge, but this is not our policy.

Joe Slovo

#27. All the logic in the world could not blunt the pain. Logic could not blunt her terrible sense of personal failure. Only time would do those things, and time would do an imperfect job.

Stephen King

#28. I grew up in Europe, and soccer was the first organized game I played. When we moved back to the U.S. in the middle of 4th grade, I switched to American football and stopped playing competitively until college, when I played intramurals.

Andrew Luck

#29. It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.

Joe Slovo

#30. There's a certain clubbiness to the idea that you're an ex-president. You're no longer a politician. You're a statesman.

Robert Dallek

#31. Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland, and we do not expect to.

Joe Slovo

#32. No movement finding itself in this stage of struggle can operate by getting authority from the leading body of the political organs for even minor action that is taken and we don't even know in the case of the actions which have publicize whether they are in fact our people.

Joe Slovo

#33. Merkabah is translated as either meaning the throne of god or chariot. Both definitions imply a means of spiritual ascension, not a physical one. They only have it partly right.

L.Z.Marie

#34. There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists.

Joe Slovo

#35. Therefore, our fight must primarily be a political mass struggle with revolutionary goals.

Joe Slovo

#36. Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip," Jonathan would say, other times, "is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too.

Richard Bach

#37. Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.

Joe Slovo

#38. We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier.

Joe Slovo

#39. God cannot use a man or woman greatly until he wounds them deeply.

Aiden Wilson Tozer