Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Milovan Djilas

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a politician Milovan Djilas.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Milovan Djilas

Milovan Djilas was a Yugoslav communist politician, theorist and author. He was a key figure in the Partisan movement during World War II, as well as in the post-war government. A self-identified democratic socialist, Djilas became one of the best-known and most prominent dissidents in Yugoslavia and all of Eastern Europe. During an era of several decades, he critiqued communism from the viewpoint of trying to improve it from within; after the revolutions of 1989 and the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, he critiqued it from an anti-communist viewpoint of someone whose youthful dreams had been disillusioned.

Politician | June 12, 1911 - April 20, 1995
Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long. — © Milovan Djilas
Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.
The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.
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.
The hardest thing about being a communist is trying to predict the past.
[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.
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