Milovan Djilas

“Dogmatism is not a matter of refusing to see the facts, but of seeing the facts and refusing to change.”

“In the Communist state, the ruling class is not the bourgeoisie, but a new class of bureaucrats.”

“The new class, the bureaucracy, or more accurately the political bureaucracy, has all the characteristics of earlier ones as well as some new characteristics of its own.”

“Power is a beast which lives on human flesh.”

“Every revolution, and even every war, creates illusions and is conducted in the name of unrealizable ideals.”

“History does not have to be what it has been.”

“Ideas do not have to be correct to be effective.”

“He who has power has everything; he who has no power has nothing.”

“This is a world in which one is either a hammer or an anvil.”

“The most important thing in life is to have a mission, a cause to which one can dedicate one's life.”

“No regime has ever been brought down by a book.”

“The moment a party organization is established, it begins to live a life of its own.”