Enemies of the People Quotes

“each week, before they dealt the cards, my father presented his typed report on himself and my mother to Marika, who copied it in her hand, then burned the original.”
― Kati Marton, Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America

“This is the ultimate triumph of totalitarianism: the victim who seeks blame for himself.”
― Kati Marton, Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America

“She says her only wish is to get out of this country, where there is no life, no freedom. ’They have killed off beauty, and art, and literature and all that is beautiful and good in life. Press freedom? This is what they call press freedom! If someone has the courage to write things as they are, prison is the result, ’ she says.”
― Kati Marton, Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America

“It’s the ones who don’t tell you they are informing,” he said, “that you have to worry about.”
― Kati Marton, Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America

“Life in a Communist country is an intellectually empty life and we suffered the constant pangs of intellectual starvation.”
― Kati Marton, Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America