Slovo Z Quotes & Sayings

Central bankers got it right in the United States in 1987 when they avoided deflationary pressures as well as serious trouble in the banking system. — Ben Bernanke

I can tell you I love you as many times as you can stand to hear it, but all it does is remind us that love is not enough. Not even close. — Mark Andrus

Some may seek revenge, but this is not our policy. — Joe Slovo

I think it is tragic that a situation should arise where civilians on any side are killed. But it is almost a cliche to say that it is virtually unavoidable and this isn't unique to us alone. — Joe Slovo

If you don't believe in even the possibility of magic, you will never find it. — Richard Castle

There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists. — Joe Slovo

A man who uses a woman for his own sexual gratification, but belittles her into thinking she is no good in bed, is not a dominant personality, but a submissive one. — Diana Hunter

Luke smells like coconut and sandalwood; all things that bring me straight back to the beach house Mom and Dad rent every year. — Jolene Perry

Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland, and we do not expect to. — Joe Slovo

What did it mean, falling at his feet like that? Was it symbolic or what? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country. — Joe Slovo

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future. — Muhammad Yunus

You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder. — Joe Slovo

But as you say, the fundamental stumbling block is the question of the future of the economy. And it's not just the sort of economic laboratory question, of what kind of system would best generate growth, which is the way it's presented. — Joe Slovo

The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement. — Joe Slovo

I think a legitimate target is the enemy and [the] enemy is basically in uniform, but not all [are] in Uniform. For example in the rural areas, our judgement is that virtually the whole farming community is part of the South African Defence Force. — Joe Slovo

People need to write articles and they need to have angles in them and I'm grateful when people are doing articles, but I always say there's not a great mystery to stand-up comedy. — Jim Gaffigan

It may be hard on some fathers not to have a son, but it is much harder on a boy not to have a father. — Sara Gilbert

It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative. — Joe Slovo

We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex. — Abraham Flexner

One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country. — Joe Slovo

Therefore, our fight must primarily be a political mass struggle with revolutionary goals. — Joe Slovo

On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on - our liberation front is characterized by relatively highly developed class forces, tested in political struggles. — Joe Slovo

When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop. — Joe Slovo

No movement finding itself in this stage of struggle can operate by getting authority from the leading body of the political organs for even minor action that is taken and we don't even know in the case of the actions which have publicize whether they are in fact our people. — Joe Slovo

We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier. — Joe Slovo

Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology. — Joe Slovo

I wanted to bite him hard enough to express my frustration, yet sweetly enough that he'd let me do it again. — Amy Harmon

We need to respond to the mood of the people - that we must take the lives of the other side as well. — Joe Slovo

Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go. — Joe Slovo

It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology. — Joe Slovo

The ANC, we believe, stands at the head of the whole liberation front, the whole Mass Democratic Movement. — Joe Slovo

Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe. — Joe Slovo

We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people. — Joe Slovo

One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible. — Joe Slovo

However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes. — Joe Slovo

For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. And it's not serious, trying to understand why flowers go to such trouble to produce thorns that are good for nothing? It's not important, the war between the sheep and the flowers? It's no more serious and more important than the numbers that fat red gentleman is adding up? Suppose I happen to know a unique flower, one that exists nowhere in the world except on my planet, one that a little sheep can wipe out in a single bite one morning, just like that, without even realizing what he'd doing - that isn't important? If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself 'My flower's up there somewhere ... ' But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important? — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism. — Joe Slovo

He knew when to compromise. Yet he never compromised his principles. He was a militant. Yet a militant who knew how to plan, assess concrete situations and emerge with rational solutions to problems. — Nelson Mandela