Leader Quotes

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.

Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.

The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.

Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.

No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea.

National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

Great ideology creates great times.

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.

We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.

A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.

Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever.

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.

I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.