Milovan Djilas Quotes & Sayings

Better to be an honourable man than a minister of state. — Milovan Djilas

The hardest thing about being a communist is trying to predict the past. — Milovan Djilas

The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest. — Milovan Djilas

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. — Milovan Djilas

Tyranny over the mind is the most complete and most brutal type of tyranny; every other tyranny begins and ends with it. — Milovan Djilas

[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own. — Milovan Djilas

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long. — Milovan Djilas