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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

In love, each man is his own personal challenge.

I tend to go to bed really early on New Year's Eve. Then I wake up early, drive up while it's still dark, and hike out somewhere beautiful to watch the sunrise. I just take a couple hours and have a post-mortem of the year.

If I were to go back to the Philippines, I would probably end up teaching creative writing at a university. I wouldn't be able to write, for I would become too jaded to be able to view the existing situation objectively.

I'm not the geek in the family: I'm the organizer. But what I do know is that we have a very terrific team of consultants, former federal cybersecurity experts who are working with us to make sure we have a very safe system.

Medieval justice was a quaint thing.

Alchemy is the art that separates what is useful from what is not by transforming it into its ultimate matter and essence.

Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can't direct anything except inside their bureau.

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

We take safety very, very seriously on every film I make, and that's why I've never had a serious accident or anybody killed when I make a picture.

As far as 'Birdsong' is concerned, I think the television program made a very honorable attempt at it, but the truth of the matter is that adaptations of long, ambitious books very seldom transfer well to the screen, and why would they?

Even a superpower has limits.

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

I found out that most programmers don't like to test their software as intensely as I do.

A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.

The best way to get acid out of your body is to wash it out. The best way to wash it out is to provide plenty of water to do the job.

Love is of all passions the strongest for it attacks simultaneously the head the heart and the senses.

I had a lot of friends in high school who said, 'Louie, I don't care what the government does as long as they leave me alone.' Well, guess what, when you don't care what the government does, it does not leave you alone.

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category, but a pillar of the state.

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

Fashion is not art. Never.