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Quotes by Leader
"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."
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"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."
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"The king must die so that the country can live."
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"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied."
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"Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious."
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"What was taken by force, can only be restored by force."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."
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"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood."
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"Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself."
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"There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America."
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"Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy."
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"With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world."
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"The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved."
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"There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts."
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"There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights."
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"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."
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"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."
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"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
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"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."
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"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."
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"It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right."
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"My aim is to reform to transform. For me, reforms are those policies that transform the lives of ordinary citizens. In the last two years, we have taken a comprehensive package of reforms which go beyond more economic reforms."
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"Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us."
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"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."
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"The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?""
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"Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity."
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"The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies."
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"Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress."
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