Milovan Đilas Quotes

Milovan Äilas, (1911 - 1995), was a Yugoslavian Communist politician, theorist and, ultimately, a dissident.

• "Ideology in the Soviet Union is both dead, and very much alive! Dead at the level of faith; alive as an indispensable rationale of policy."
• "It is a much more formidable and difficult task to relate a historical tragedy than to take part in it."
• "Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long."
• "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."

• "The hardest thing about being a communist is trying to predict the past."