Quotes by Kim Jong Il

A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.
– Kim Jong Il
Great ideology creates great times.
– Kim Jong Il
I am sure you have seen for yourselves and sensed how the Korean people feel towards the United States here in our country.
– Kim Jong Il
In other words, one is responsible for one's own destiny and one has also the capacity for hewing out one's own destiny.
– Kim Jong Il
National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.
– Kim Jong Il
No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea.
– Kim Jong Il
The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.
– Kim Jong Il
The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.
– Kim Jong Il
We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.
– Kim Jong Il
The Juche idea is a new man-centered philisophical outlook on the world which offers a full explanation of the essence and law of the socio-historical movement, the revolutionry movement, the subject of which is the popular masses, as well as the fundamental stands and methods and guiding principles to be maintained in the revolutionary movement.
– Kim Jong Il