Enver Hoxha Quotes

• The modern revisionists and reactionaries call us Stalinists, thinking that they insult us and, in fact, that is what they have in mind. But, on the contrary, they glorify us with this epithet; it is an honor for us to be Stalinists for while we maintain such a stand the enemy cannot and will never force us to our knees.

  Enver Hoxha

  Thinking, Honor, Mind

  Enver Hoxha (1974). “On Further Revolutionizing Our Party and the Life of Our Country as a Whole: Speeches 1967-1968”

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

  Enver Hoxha

  Mean, Enemy, Right Road

  "Albania Challenges Khrushchev Revisionism".

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

  Enver Hoxha

  Country, Men, Socialist Countries

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• 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.

  Enver Hoxha

  Country, Party, Fire

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

  Enver Hoxha

  Principles, Bread, Marxism Leninism

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• It is only the working class at the head of the masses, it is only the working class headed by its real Marxist-Leninist party, it is only the working class through armed revolution, through violence, that can and must bury the traitorous revisionists.

  Enver Hoxha

  Real, Party, Class

  Enver Hoxha (1972). “The Party of Labor of Albania in Battle with Modern Revisionism: Speeches and Articles”

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

  Enver Hoxha

  Heart, Men, Mind

  Enver Hoxha (1980). “Eurocommunism is anti-communism”, Natl Pubns Centre

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

  Enver Hoxha

  Struggle, Destiny, Class

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

  Enver Hoxha

  Revolution, Particular

  Enver Hoxha, Instituti i Studimeve Marksiste-Leniniste (1974). “Selected works”

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• Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a socialist state, but of a special kind, as the world has never seen it before! The Titoites even boast that their state has nothing in common with the first socialist state which emerged from the socialist October Revolution and which was founded by Lenin and Stalin on the basis of the scientific theory of Marx and Engels.

  Enver Hoxha

  Yugoslavia, October Revolution, Special

  "Yugoslav "Self-Administration" - Capitalist Theory and Practice". "Directions of the Development of the Political System of Socialist Self-Administration", Institute of Marxist-Leninist studies of the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Albania, Tirana, 1978.

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• The sacrifices of our people were very great. Out of a population of one million, 28,000 were killed, 12,600 wounded, 10,000 were made political prisoners in Italy and Germany, and 35,000 made to do forced labour, of ground; all the communications, all the ports, mines and electric power installations were destroyed, our agriculture and livestock were plundered, and our entire national economy was wrecked.

  Enver Hoxha

  Communication, Sacrifice, Electric Power

  "Selected Works, 1941 - 1948" by Enver Hoxha, Tirana: 8 Nëntori Publishing House, vol. I, 1974.

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• This is a wrong course the Chinese comrades are trying to lead us on to, it is an opportunist road of vacillation and concessions to the Khrushchev traitor group which finds itself in grave difficulties, and is intriguing in order to escape defeat.

  Enver Hoxha

  Order, Chinese, Trying

  "Reflections on China, 1962-1972" by Enver Hoxha, Tirana: 8 Nëntori Publishing House, vol. I, 1979.

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