Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles. We do not betray Marxism - Leninism.

When the enemy attacks you, this means that you are on the right road.

A country where a man is afraid to criticise another one is no socialist country.

The entire party and country should hurl into the fire and break the neck of anyone who dared trample underfoot the sacred edict of the party on the defense of women's rights.

No force, no torture, no intrigue can eradicate Marxism-Leninism from the minds and hearts of men.

Every departure from class struggle has fatal results for the destiny of socialism.

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was neither a revolution, nor great, nor cultural, and, in particular, not in the least proletarian.

Allowing yourself to follow the crevices of your heart lines is a messy process and not easy to characterize or rationalize into neat and tidy lists and boxes.

Women are always being asked when they're going to have children. It's a question they're asking even more often.

You can either practice being right or practice being kind.

How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price?

When I go home, everyone's very proud. I get recognized the most when I go back to my hometown, but it's in a really sweet way. They're just very proud and supportive.

I have suffered for this book; now it's your turn.

Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.

When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it.