Sung-Il Kim > Quotes

“Stalin has died. The ardent heart of the great leader of progressive mankind has ceased to beat. This sad news has spread over Korean territory like lightning, inflicting a bitter blow to the hearts of millions of people. Korean People’s Army soldiers, workers, farmers, and students, as well as all residents of both South and North Korea, have heard the sad news with profound grief." – Kim Il Sung”
― Kim Il Sung

“Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace.”
― Kim Il-sung

“I often tell my friends that I write to reach people who are like me. If you find this book fun to read, or even meaningful, you are like me, at least in that particular way. I may never know who you are, but I firmly believe that you are out there.”
― Sung-Il Kim, Blood of the Old Kings

“Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live.”
― Kim Il-Sung

“What is meant by the Soviet power mentioned by Lenin? It means no less than the dictatorship of the proletariat. It, therefore, means that the state of the working class should continue the class struggle and carry out the ideological and cultural revolutions to remould the consciousness of the people and enhance their technical and cultural level, and accomplish the task of working-classizing and revolutionizing the whole society. By electrification it is meant that technology should be developed to such a high level as to be able to make all the production processes automatic and the material-production basis of society be greatly consolidated.”
― Kim Il Sung, On Some Theoretical Problems of the Socialist Economy

“she truly needed the break or if she was giving in to fear and deliberately prolonging her journey.”
― Sung-Il Kim, Blood of the Old Kings