Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Janos Kadar

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Hungarian statesman Janos Kadar.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Janos Kadar

János József Kádár, born János József Czermanik, was a Hungarian communist leader and the General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, a position he would serve in for 32 years. Declining health led to his retirement in 1988, and he would die a year later in 1989.

I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life.
Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.
Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens. — © Janos Kadar
Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.
I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.
It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.
Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well.
In these momentous hours of our history we call on every Hungarian worker who is led by devotion to the people and the country to join our Party, the name of which is the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party.
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