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Top 15 Joe Slovo Quotes (2025 Update)

Joe Slovo Quote: “Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology.”

1. “Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology.”

Joe Slovo Quote: “You can’t go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you’ve got to keep it over your shoulder.”

2. “You can’t go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you’ve got to keep it over your shoulder.”

Joe Slovo Quote: “No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.”

3. “No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.”

Joe Slovo Quote: “It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.”

4. “It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.”

Joe Slovo Quote: “No movement finding itself in this stage of struggle can operate by getting authority from the leading body of the political organs for even minor action that is taken and we don’t even know in the case of the actions which have publicize whether they are in fact our people.”

5. “No movement finding itself in this stage of struggle can operate by getting authority from the leading body of the political organs for even minor action that is taken and we don’t even know in the case of the actions which have publicize whether they are in fact our people.”

Joe Slovo Quote: “The ANC, we believe, stands at the head of the whole liberation front, the whole Mass Democratic Movement.”

6. “The ANC, we believe, stands at the head of the whole liberation front, the whole Mass Democratic Movement.”

Joe Slovo Quote: “It’s not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.”

7. “It’s not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.”

Joe Slovo Quote: “There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust – good Christians and good Communists.”

8. “There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust – good Christians and good Communists.”

Joe Slovo Quote: “One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible.”

9. “One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible.”

Joe Slovo Quote: “We need to respond to the mood of the people – that we must take the lives of the other side as well.”

10. “We need to respond to the mood of the people – that we must take the lives of the other side as well.”

Joe Slovo Quote: “We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier.”

11. “We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier.”

Joe Slovo Quote: “On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on – our liberation front is characterized by relatively highly developed class forces, tested in political struggles.”

12. “On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on – our liberation front is characterized by relatively highly developed class forces, tested in political struggles.”

Joe Slovo Quote: “One of the regime’s most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country.”

13. “One of the regime’s most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country.”

Joe Slovo Quote: “Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.”

14. “Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.”

Joe Slovo Quote: “When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn’t expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.”

15. “When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn’t expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.”

Joe Slovo Quote: “We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.”

16. “We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.”

Joe Slovo Quote: “However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy’s camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.”

17. “However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy’s camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.”

Joe Slovo Quote: “The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.”

18. “The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.”

Joe Slovo Quote: “Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.”

19. “Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.”

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