Politics Of North Korea Quotes & Sayings

My parents are retired, basically. — Shia Labeouf

John would have been the first white rapper. And also he would have cherished the Internet. — Yoko Ono

Mick called Benny. Passed accountability onto me."
"I'm gonna kill him! I'm going to kill that sorry son-of-a-bitch!" America shouted. — Jamie McGuire

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know." — Edwidge Danticat

Kim Jong Il, incidentally, has been made head of the party and of the army, but the office of the presidency is still 'eternally' held by his adored and departed dad, who died on July 8, 1994, at 82. (The Kim is dead. Long live the Kim.) This makes North Korea the only state in the world with a dead president. What would be the right term for this? A necrocracy? A thanatocracy? A mortocracy? A mausolocracy? Anyway, grimly appropriate for a morbid system so many of whose children have died with grass in their mouths. — Christopher Hitchens

Orwell's short and intense life has for years borne witness to some of those verities of which we were already aware. Parties and churches and states cannot be honest, but individuals can. Real books cannot be written by machines or committees. The truth is not always easy to discern, but a lie can and must be called by its right name. And the imagination, like certain wild animals, as Orwell himself once put it, will not breed in captivity. Actually, that last metaphor is beautiful but inaccurate. Even in the most dire conditions, there is a human will to resist coercion. We must believe that even now in North Korea, there are ideas alive inside human brains that were not put there by any authority. — Christopher Hitchens

My best travelling experience lasted several years: between 1971 and 1974 when I bummed around the East. All I had with me was a cooking pot, a stove, a map and blankets and a couple of dhotis. — Antony Gormley

I'm better at life with you in it. — Allison Winn Scotch

People think writers are always feeling inspired. That's only about 5% of it. 95% is the daily discipline to just sit and write. — Bruce Van Horn