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Aphorisms of Kim Jong-Il

The proverb has it that a home is bought for 800 pounds of gold and a neighbor for 1,000 pounds, but a revolutionary comrade cannot be bought even for 1,000 pounds of gold.
The man who believes in the people gets to drink the elixir of life, while the man who turns his back on them comes in for poison.
Slowing down one step in the education of the younger generation means ten steps delay in the advance of the country.
There can be no mathematical rounding down or rounding up when dealing with the political integrity of people.
For a skilful rider a horse runs one thousand miles at a gallop; for a poor rider it crawls at a donkey's pace.
To expect victory in a revolution without a leader is as good as wishing for a flower where there is no sun.
A miracle is not an accidental gift from Heaven; it is something inevitable, and it is given by the people.
Poverty of philosophy results in the poverty of thought, which in turn ends in the poverty of creation.
The man who lives off himself will be prosperous, while the man who lives off others will go to ruin.
Strength plus trust will prevail over Heaven. The knack of moving a man's mind lies in your mind.
A man whose parents are revolutionaries does not himself automatically become a revolutionary.
One who does not appreciate the beauty of flowers will never know how to grow them.
The loyal man’s mouth is in his heart, while a traitor’s heart is on the tip of his tongue.
The strongest weapon of all is a mind in which loyalty and filial devotion act in unison.
A scrap of iron in your own house is better than a lump of gold in your neighbor's.
While loyalty and filial devotion invigorate the revolution, ulterior motives poison it.
A flaw in even one single creation remains an eternal blot on the creator's career.
Loyalty and treachery can neither live under one roof nor eat from the same pot.
Self-knowledge makes one a revolutionary; ignorance of self makes one a slave.
Do not regret after you have created something; think deeply before creating it.
He who says that something is impossible is not speaking the Korean language.
The only way to measure the value of something new is to use a new yardstick.
Korea is an organism that can survive when whole, but cannot when bisected.
One may read foreign books, but one's soul must stay in one's own country.
A man sees, hears, feels and absorbs only as much as he can understand.
No famous man is without filial devotion and no great man without loyalty.
It is not money nor a nuclear bomb that moves the world, but a great idea.
A treacherous man has a honeyed tongue and carries a knife in his belly.
People's thought, not their social origin, is what carries out a revolution.
Loyalty and filial devotion are the supreme qualities of a revolutionary.
Find a great thing in the commonplace; see a great thing in the small.
The height of loyalty and filial devolution is the height of happiness.
Loving and treasuring our own things means patriotism and Juche.
Reality is a fine school and the popular masses are fine teachers.
A man with no love for people will never carry out the revolution.
A man is strong when he knows himself, weak when he does not.
Conscience mirrors one's behavior and tells trust from falsehood.
A revolutionary poem can replace ten million spears and swords.
There can be a flaw in a gem, but not in loyalty or filial devotion.
Work is done by people; revolution is carried out by the masses.
A man who does not love his comrade cannot be loved by him.
Loyalty stands out not in a good situation but in a difficult one.
Genuine patriotism is in the struggle for national reunification.
A loyal man opens his heart; a traitor keeps his tightly closed.
Do not wait for others' creations; give your creation to others.
On the road of revolution, both life and death are honorable.
Live our own way; fight our own way; create our own way.
Loyalty is not bought with money but is won with the heart.
Conscience is the criterion for one's trustfulness and worth.
Speed is determined by the hearts of the popular masses.
A shout devoid of creativity is merely thunder without rain.
Stereotyping is a barrier between literature and readers.
A strong man believes in himself; a weak man in others.
A loyal man lives forever but a traitor is soon forgotten.
To forsake loyalty and filial devotion is to lose one’s life.
Before becoming a scientist, be an ardent patriot first.
Nothing is impossible for a man who loves the future.
True poetic words are the words used by the people.
A man expresses himself with as much as he knows.
Love and hatred are two facets of the same passion.
Poverty of philosophy results in a poverty of politics.
A loyal man comes to the fore in times of hardship.
Without independence one can create nothing new.
Repaying love with love is a good tendency in man.
Conscience and heart are one and the same thing.
The eyes of the masses are always full of wisdom.
Both loyal and treacherous men are all around us.
Where there is life, there will be music and song.
Trust produces loyalty, mistrust leads to betrayal.
Creation is discovery while imitation is repetition.
Writing is the product of knowledge and passion.
Political philosophy is the compass of leadership.
A house with slanting pillars will soon fall down.
Trust raises a man to a higher level of thought.
Life without music is a garden without flowers.
Man, not money, is most valuable in the world.
Beauty lies in one's ideas, not in one's looks.
A word can suggest more than what it says.
Think one hundred times and choose once.
The text of a song must be a refined poem.
The source of all great creation is passion.
The popular masses are the wisest critics.
He who neglects thinking is a great loafer.
Noble in idea and aim, noble in character.
He is a fool that expects favors of others.
The best medicine is a doctor's devotion.
The Juche idea is my political philosophy.
A creation reflects the face of its creator.
A thick forest consists of individual trees.
Weak in judgement, strong in prejudice.
Foresight is the beacon of a great man.
Man's noblest joy comes from creation.
Art is the product of ideas and passion.
Uprightness is the best rule of conduct.
What a man says shows what he is.
A verbose speaker has little to say.
Literature is the art of language.
Talent lies among the masses.
Architecture is a mixed art.
Music is the art of melody.
Dim eyes miss the target.
To speak is to act.

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