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Quotes by Leader
"If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan."
26
"No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea."
26
"I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen."
26
"I mention this fact as tending to support what I have often heard stated, namely, that a shark's sense of smell is so keen that, if men ever bathe in seas where they are found, a shark is almost sure to appear directly afterwards."
25
"The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back."
25
"The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority."
25
"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do."
24
"There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse."
24
"Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself."
24
"The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever."
24
"And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon."
24
"When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home."
24
"We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it."
24
"It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious."
23
"South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk."
23
"So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized."
23
"We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States."
23
"The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly."
22
"The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges."
22
"A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning."
22
"Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress."
22
"The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free."
22
"Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart."
21
"So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future."
21
"A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing."
21
"Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding."
21
"Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity."
20
"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied."
20
"The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built."
20
"None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events."
19
"To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be."
19
"All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished."
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