Janos Kadar Quotes

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.

Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well.

It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people’s democratic order and the power of the working class.

In these momentous hours of our history we call on every Hungarian worker who is led by devotion to the people and the country to join our Party, the name of which is the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party.

I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests – let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.